Funders Network Quotes

#1. For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#2. If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money?

Steven Wright

#3. Only then did she pause to read Juniper's card.Professor James Moriarty. She slipped it into her reticule without another thought. The name meant nothing to her, except that he looked more like a James than an Arnold.

Emma Jane Holloway

#4. Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

Steve Burke

#5. I thought I had learned not to set my heart on anything.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.

Susan Hill

#7. Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

Alexander Lowen

#8. I bring his hand to my lips and kiss his palm, my eyes closing, as I inflict as much emotion into my action as possible. "I love you," I whisper. The pang in my heart spreads, thundering through my body.

Trisha Wolfe

#9. Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

Friedrich Schiller

#10. You need to form a grand coalition, and you need to put your ideological differences aside and work together to focus on people's basic needs. You can't eat sharia.

Mohamed ElBaradei