Laurinos Tavern Quotes

#1. Access to governance has to be guaranteed with transparent systems that deliver responses and outcomes. The strengthening of democratic governance empowers the population to become active partners in the growth process.

Narendra Modi

#2. What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. America's been living on borrowed time all these years ... Playing the world's whore, wallowing in our greed. Now we're going to pay the price.

Wally Lamb

#4. It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

Lord Chesterfield

#5. I do not wish to hear about the moon from someone who has not been there.

Mark Twain

#6. As long as Rupert Murdoch has owned it, the 'New York Post' has been defined by its shamelessness and total lack of interest in taking responsibility for its worst errors and poor judgment.

Alex Pareene

#7. We have here a proof that there is in the atom a fundamental quantity, which increases by regular steps as one passes from one element to the next. This quantity can only be the charge on the central positive nucleus, of the existence of which we already have definite proof.

Henry Moseley

#8. I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

Sanaa Lathan

#9. As soon as anger knocks at one's door, wisdom prepares to leave.

Pawan Mishra

#10. To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a minimum of one thousand advertisements a day. To say "no" to the most outrageous commercials is an act of responsibility that needs to be taught early and often.

Haki R. Madhubuti

#11. Japan had held 132,134 western POWs and 35,756 of them died in detention, a death rate of 27 percent. In contrast, only 4 percent of the POWs held by the Germans and Italians died.

James D. Bradley

#12. While most streams of Buddhism take a contemplative stance on passion, pleasure, and pain, Sufism encourages us to be open to our passions - to dive into the sea, to become at one with the beauty and power of the waves.

Charlotte Kasl