Veli Pekka Lehto Quotes

#1. Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.

Jean Giono

#2. There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'

Nelson Mandela

#3. A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

Frantz Fanon

#4. When you're dead, you don't breathe, you don't see, you don't feel, you don't love.

Snoop Dogg

#5. I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.

Cynthia Voigt

#6. The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

Ted Cruz

#7. It's great to be out and proud.

Greg Louganis

#8. I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.

Kate Williams

#9. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#10. I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

Nancy Jo Sales

#11. Though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?

Lorrie Moore

#12. He'd almost died and seeing the proof of his knife wounds, hearing him describe the incident that had almost taken his life, rattled her so much.
With him still holding her wrist, she bent awkwardly and pressed her lips against the worst of his scars.

Virna DePaul

#13. In these cases, the mind knows what it's doing better than the guile, because the mind flows, the guile dams up, that is, the mind stride but the guile limps. And that's no guileless statement, however, and that's no Harvard like, as MIT will measure soon with computers and docks of Martian data.

Jack Kerouac