Oleksandra Quotes

#1. A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.

Richard Dawkins

#2. I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

Elton John

#3. I am such a vacation girl. I have little places that I go to frequently! If I am not too busy on a weekend, I try to go someplace like Mexico or Manzanillo or something like that.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#4. At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.

Pema Chodron

#5. To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

George Orwell

#6. In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#7. How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

Lester B. Pearson

#8. I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

Shakira

#9. At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will you wager? Reason cannot make you choose either, reason cannot prove either wrong.

Blaise Pascal

#10. The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

Sarah Dessen

#11. People who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles.

Christina Baker Kline

#12. I was a pretty normal high school kid. I just loved to play sports and had opportunities, and the Lord blessed me with talent, and I just tried to take advantage of it.

Matt Holliday

#13. I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

Sylvia Kristel