Ldr Meeting Quotes

#1. Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

Orson Scott Card

#2. Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated city, and felt cheated by her ability to feel happy by everybody else.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#3. Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. People are more likely to listen to sermons you preach if they are also sermons you practice.

Orrin Woodward

#5. Every encounter with God tells you more about God

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

Andy Goldsworthy

#7. Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for renunciation through a derivative: heroism.

Emil Cioran

#8. I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.

Martin Firrell

#9. I saw that I had followed the chief guiding principle of the petty bourgeoisie in modernity and made a virtue of necessity in telling myself my husband was a good lover.

Nell Zink

#10. In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

Emilio Estevez

#11. There are some people, be they black or white, who don't want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what's wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#12. Inner healing involves moving from darkness to the light. "Light" is a word that has different meanings yet is generally understood as love and understanding. Love nurtures the emotional body; understanding fills the voids created by pain.

Deepak Chopra