Vientiane Quotes

#1. Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.

Noam Chomsky

#2. You didn't have to travel very far out of Vientiane before the road turned to pebbles and potholes. Traveling in a truck was like falling down an endless flight of uneven steps in a coffin.

Colin Cotterill

#3. You know how to cook steak?" he asked, his voice warming slightly.
"Light a match under it. If it doesn't kick, it's dead and done.

Faith Hunter

#4. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood.

Joe Abercrombie

#5. You suck at walking in heels." "And you suck at trying not to fuck me in public," I retort.

Anonymous

#6. Sickness is a problem for the body, not the mind - unless the mind decides that it is a problem. Lameness, too, is the body's problem, not the mind's. Say this to yourself whatever the circumstance and you will find without fail that the problem pertains to something else, not to you.

Epictetus

#7. God, it's nice to be treated like a man.

Jim Edmonds

#8. Providence," he argues, "is not a theory about some activities of God; it is the religious symbol of the courage of confidence with respect to fate and death.

Paul Tillich

#9. The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

Michael Behe

#10. Every moment in our lives brings the opportunity to love and appreciate this beautiful magical life.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It was an attempt to express their inner significance or to draw attention to realities that were too elusive to be discussed in a logically coherent way.

Karen Armstrong