Vaikeneminen Quotes

#1. One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told.

Corrine Jackson

#2. There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.

Mitch Albom

#3. As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, devouring the feelings of love and surrender. They were interested in emotion. As I was holding on to my last thought - that God is love - they asked, Even here? Even here?

Rick Strassman

#4. Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

Ban Ki-moon

#5. What we had was a dream, and it was beautiful, but it was just a dream. It's time for us to wake up.

Julie Kagawa

#6. The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

Cliff Stearns

#7. So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#8. I'd love to work with Sean Penn or Kevin Spacey.

Devon Bostick

#9. In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I'm a very important person.

David Brooks

#10. It was a famous old hotel called the Overlook. It burned down ten years ago. The caretaker burned it down. He was crazy. Everybody in town said so. But never mind: he's dead.

Stephen King

#11. Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.

J.D. Salinger

#12. I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the streets and I find the same Jesus hidden in the dying destitute, the AIDS patients, the lepers, the abandoned children, the hungry, and the homeless. It's the same Jesus.

Mother Teresa

#13. In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.

Richard Holbrooke

#14. The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

Noam Chomsky