Palanquin Chair Quotes

#1. I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.

John Prendergast

#2. I spent a few minutes fully engrossed in the textbook, having forgotten where I was and why I was there, the highest compliment one can pay a book, I suppose.

Neve Maslakovic

#3. It's easy to get rid of people, Christophe. All you have to do is rely on them.

Lili St. Crow

#4. Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

Edward Abbey

#5. In prayer, God doesn't guarantee the answer you want, but He does guarantee the answer you need.

Todd Stocker

#6. Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs

Ellen Hopkins

#7. Data: My positronic brain has several layers of shielding to protect me from power surges. It would be possible for you to remove my cranial unit and take it with you.
Riker: Let me get this straight
you want me to take off your head?
Data: Yes sir

Star Trek The Next Generation

#8. Without habit loops, our brains would shut down, overwhelmed by the minutiae of daily life. People whose basal ganglia are damaged by injury or disease often become mentally paralyzed. They have trouble performing basic activities, such as opening a door or deciding what to eat.

Charles Duhigg

#9. If you help someone, you may create a customer for life.

Jay Baer

#10. When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?

Jodi Picoult

#11. Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero