"The peoples are not awake...[There are dangers] which will render a world organization impossible. I foresee the renewal of...the secret bargaining behind closed doors. Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds. International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples."

-- Henri La Fontaine

#Country Quotes #Sheep Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Put on the new man by renewing your mind with God's Word and submitting your body to the authority of that Word.”
“A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think when I was doing my very first interviews, I probably brought a notepad and did ask people my first fifteen questions while sitting in a Starbucks or something horrible like that. And I found that, oftentimes, the most important thing at the very first interview is just establishing a personal connection and developing some sort of rapport so that I can go back to them again, and then maybe again, and maybe again after that.”
“Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end.”
“I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.”
“I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.”
“No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.”

Source : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. "An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 319, 1732.
“In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.”

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