"If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent."

-- Hans Rosling

#Children Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.”
“If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.”

Source : Haruo Shirane (2013). “Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900”, p.898, Columbia University Press
“The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.”
“I once dated a guy who was like, 'Holy sh--, I just made out with Harriet the Spy!' And that's messed up. Don't say that. I was 10, you're 30, it's just weird.”
“The dreams are that you're gonna have a great series and win. The nightmares are that you're gonna let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. Those things happen, you know. I think a lot of it is just fate.”

Source : Interview with Don Shane (October 6, 1986), as quoted in "What Bill Buckner Said 19 Days Before Game Six of the '86 World Series" by Jason English, mentalfloss.com. October 25, 2011.
“Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.”

Source : Henri Fesquet Wit and Wisdom of Good Pope John (1964) p. 112
“The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I honestly never expected to see this book in English), but by far its greatest attraction is the intelligence and more important the wisdom of its author. It's a towering achievement no serious reader should miss.”
“"It gets better." - On his campaign against bullying.”

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