Miikka Ruokanen Quotes

#1. This wouldn't be so bad, I told myself. But secretly, I knew that I was quite wrong.

Bill Bryson

#2. One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.

Fritz Machlup

#3. Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#4. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Mary Shelley

#5. I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

Helen Keller

#6. It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.

Erskine Bowles

#7. The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.

Stephen Richards

#8. The Continental army got more generals than they got private soldiers, these days. An officer lives through more 'n two battles, they make him some kind of general on the spot. Now, gettin' any pay for it, that's a different kettle of fish.

Diana Gabaldon

#9. And it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.

Victor Serge

#10. These brief weekly sessions helped to bring about valuable changes and health improvements in the participants. The motto was: we are all different and special, so we do not attempt to become like somebody else, but connect more deeply with our true selves.

Patrizia Collard

#11. When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and you're open to listening, or you're listening and you're open to what this other person is doing. Also you going to be open to what you're doing and you're not going to have it like 'planned out'.

Hamid Drake

#12. Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the Media Lab at MIT, told me that during a meeting with some of the Internet pioneers in 1993 he asked how many computers they believed there would be in the year 2000. The highest number he was given was 30 million. In reality there were going to be 500 million.

Maria Teresa Cometto