November 2009
58 posts
“The more things change, the more they remain the same.”
– Alphonse Karr (as made popular to me by General Shepherd in MWII)
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
– Albert Einstein
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you...”
– Muhammad Ali
How to write a paper in college/university:
1. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a well lit place in front of your computer.
2. Check your email. 3. Read over the assignment carefully, to make certain you understand it. 4. Walk down to the vending machines and buy some chocolate to help you concentrate. 5. Check your facebook. 6. Call up a friend and ask if he/she wants to go to grab a coffee. Just to get settled down and ready to...
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a...”
– Albert Einstein
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes...”
– Leo F. Buscaglia
“You could be right. You could be wrong. Remember this. Especially the second...”
The people who told you that the early bird...
“No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are...”
– Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Chris Thyssen saw Elizabeth O'Donnell today =)
Elizabeth O’Donnell graduate of Dubai American Academy, class of 2009 is traveling around the world and today (the 18th of November, 2009 - Amsterdam Time) I had the lucky opportunity to meet up with her while she was passing the Netherlands. We met up in The Hauge (Den Haag in Dutch) and caught up on several things. Although we only ate during the whole time period of our short meet, it was...
“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make...”
– Don Marquis
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be...”
– Albert Einstein
http://www.teachabroad.com/listingsp3.cfm/listing/5... →
Never realized this blog existed, till just now. →
“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source...”
“we are not only responsible for the things we do, but also the things we do not...”
– Unknown
“You never know when you’re making a memory.”
– Rickie Lee Jones
“All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that...”
– Carl Sagan
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
– Aldous Huxley
“The question that sometimes drives me hazy: ‘Am I or the others crazy?”
– Albert Einstein
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
– Eugene Ionesco
“A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses...”
– Robert Oxton Bolt
“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the...”
– Monica Baldwin
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln (via kari-shma)
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can...”
– Marilyn Monroe