Warriner Auditorium Quotes

#1. The greatest graduates come from the University of Life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Nelson Mandela

#3. I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Richard M. Nixon

#4. Man must not check reason by tradition, but contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.

Mavis Staples

#6. The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste.
But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.

Erich Fromm

#7. Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

David R. Brower

#8. The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass.

Mitt Romney

#9. The rose that all are praising
Is not the rose for me.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#10. However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.

Paul Gauguin

#11. In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

Christopher Langan

#12. Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

Radhanath Swami

#13. When some smart ass asks you if you're driving, you say, 'Nope, just kicking the tires.' You have to make sure you actually kick them all on your way around to the passenger side. Otherwise it's like lying.

Elle Lothlorien

#14. The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

William McDonough