Barbara Mikkelson Famous Quotes
"Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few."
"Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility."
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
"The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience."
Barbara Mikkelson Quotations
"How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself"
La Rochefoucauld
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
Kahlil Gibran
"And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description."
George Gordon Byron
"Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past."
Frederick Henry Hedge
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
Margaret Mead
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Henry Louis Mencken
"Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad."
Anon
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire