Vappu Ruokia Quotes

#1. Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Science has proof without any certainty.
Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montagu

#3. Her gaze did not leave her burning groom, nor did her mind abandon the fact that he was not consumed by the flames.

Elizabeth Sterling

#4. I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.

Whitney Houston

#5. There's no pride in having been a child soldier.

Emmanuel Jal

#6. If one does die taking these drugs, the death is likely to be very peaceful. Morphia is, after all, the goddess of dreams.

Philip Nitschke

#7. I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand."
Mary Lasswell

Mary Lasswell

#8. I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what I do; I'm very serious about the creative process and everything, but at the end of the day, I am just another lucky geek who got to live out a dream, you know?

Corey Taylor

#9. Behavior isn't driven by permanent traits that apply across the board. Rather, someone could be honest at work, but deceptive with his spouse. People don't have character, but rather a multiplicity of tendencies activated by context.

Joshua V. Scher

#10. To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#11. Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#12. Rock and roll is catching on all over ... France ... England ... They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

Bob Hope

#13. His glasses, carefully folded, placed in my mum's outstretched hand. His coat. An envelope. His watch. His shoes. And when we left, clutching a plastic bag with his belongings, the clouds were still there,

Helen Macdonald

#14. Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

Irvin D. Yalom