Jillion Weisberg Quotes

#1. Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?

Sharon M. Draper

#2. Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Aristotle.

#3. People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

Richard Neal

#4. Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.

Robert Mundell

#6. The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.

Michael Shermer

#7. How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?

Anna Gavalda

#8. I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

James Wolfensohn

#9. The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

Jonathan Alter

#10. Beauty is not pretty.

Erwin Blumenfeld