Yap Thiam Hien Quotes

#1. Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her chief duties that of preventing people from making those old mistakes; from making them over and over again forever, as people always do if they are left to themselves.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.

Babatunde Fashola

#3. Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that Mother mild Jesus Christ her little Child ... With the poor, and mean, and lowly, Lived on earth our Savior Holy.

Cecil Frances Alexander

#4. What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.

Brian Koppelman

#5. Hey wedding DJ, there is no way in hell I'm paying you $1,000 when all you're doing is plugging your iPod into the sound system #AHOLE

A.O. Storm

#6. I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#7. We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Gregory Bateson

#8. He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

William R. Alger

#9. The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Friedrich Nietzsche