Ristolainen Contract Quotes

#1. There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate.

Edsger Dijkstra

#2. I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.

Lana Del Rey

#3. Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression of my very self which is inexpressible due to the shortcomings of my particular nature.

Chris Matakas

#4. After all, if it comes to all that, there is really neither Ogun or Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our own consciousness.

Lewis Nkosi

#5. The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year's time, a government can look different. You can't influence them if you don't talk to them.

Martti Ahtisaari

#7. Miracles ... seem to me to rest not so much upon ... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.

Willa Cather

#8. I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have.

Max Lucado

#9. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

Mitch Albom

#10. I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

Meryl Streep