Joint Commission Quotes

#1. Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality ... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

Dan Simmons

#2. I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

Annie Baker

#3. We all look different, but we all are the same. We are all just human beings trying to make a difference in a world branded by globalisation.

Haidji

#4. On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

Simone Weil

#5. The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#6. A ship doesn't sink because it is in the ocean in the midst of a storm. It only sinks when the hull is breached, and the ocean get inside it.

Arthur Jackson Jr.

#7. Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or e-mailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants.

Ivan Reitman

#8. Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not progressive is just a rotting!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

Eugene Ionesco

#10. Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping

Nicholas Sparks

#11. I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist.

Katie McGrath

#12. If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

Peter Drucker

#13. There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Andrew Carnegie

#14. Paganism therefore implies the rejection of this discontinuity, this rupture, this fundamental tear, which is the "dualistic fiction," which, as Nietzsche wrote in The Antichrist, "degenerated God into the contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes!

Alain De Benoist

#15. No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

Clifford Stoll

#16. See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth to it; Christ himself executeth the office of a Mediator. Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the Trinity.

Richard Sibbes