Xunantunich Quotes

#1. Since we can't trust the precipice, we shall trust the bridge however worn out it is and we shall cross to the other side!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. Replace what you don't know about the future with what you do know about God!

Christine Caine

#3. There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

Iris Chang

#4. Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

Baruch Spinoza

#5. Whether you're at the peak or the valley of any given wave, remember that this too shall pass.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#6. When I first came to Canada, I thought it was going to be easy to be a Canadian; like so many stupid Americans, I pictured Canada as simply some northern, colder, possibly more provincial region of the United States-I imagined it would be like moving to Maine, or Minnesota.

John Irving

#7. Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

William J. Clinton

#8. Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this freedom lacks noble goals or personal discipline, it degenerates into an inability to give oneself generously to others.

Pope Francis

#9. Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

Douglas Coupland

#10. We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say.

Andy Partridge

#11. Do I even want this burden any more? Probably not, I'm too old, too tired. And what, after all. have I achieved in all this time?

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#12. Among the most important things to remember about evolution - and about its primary mechanism, natural selection, as limned by Darwin and his successors - is that it doesn't have purposes. It only has results. To

David Quammen

#13. Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

Rick Yancey