My personality is definitely calm and chill.
As a person is so must you humor them.
Terence
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the were jealous. The seder for Passover (which is a shame-faced simulacrum of a Hellenic question-and-answer session, even including the wine) tells the children that it's one of those things that happens to every Jewish generation. After the or or Holocaust, many rabbis tried to tell the survivors that the immolation had been a punishment for 'exile,' or for insufficient attention to the Covenant. This explanation was something of a flop with those whose parents or children had been the raw material for the 'proof,' so for a time the professional interpreters of god's will went decently quiet. This interval of ambivalence lasted until the war of 1967, when it was announced that the divine purpose could be discerned after all. How wrong, how foolish, to have announced its discovery prematurely! The exile and the Shoah could now both be understood, as part of a heavenly if somewhat roundabout scheme to recover the Western Wall in Jerusalem and other pieces of biblically mandated real estate.I regard it as a matter of self-respect to spit in public on rationalizations of this kind. (They are almost as repellent, in their combination of arrogance, masochism, and affected false modesty, as Edith Stein's 'offer' of her life to expiate the regrettable unbelief in Jesus of her former fellow Jews.) The sage Jews are those who have put religion behind them and become in so many societies the leaven of the secular and the atheist.
Christopher Hitchens
They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
Of my friends I am the only one left.
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
Do the thing and you will be given the power
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is said which has not been said before.
Their silence is praise enough.
Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
I believe because it is impossible.
You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man's billfold.
Kurt Vonnegut
I do not give money for just mere hopes.
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here.
Steven Wright
Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Kahlil Gibran
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
If you were designing the sort of information-processing system a brain is, it would be extremely impractical to store memories permanently in their original form. You need mechanisms for transforming and recording them; for chunking information into categories . Is your memory a phonograph record on which the information is stored in localized grooves to be replayed on demand? Is so, it's a very bizarre record, for the songs are different every time they're played. Human memory is more like the village storyteller; it doesn't passively store facts but weaves them into a good (coherent, plausible) story, which is recreated with each telling.
Judith Hooper Teresi
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.
Ellen Terry
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Helen Terry
I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happened. I think the world would be a much nicer place.
Quinlan Terry
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
Tertullian
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.
Nikola Tesla
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.
The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney...
Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.
Josephine Tessier
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
Thales of Miletus
People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.
Richard Thalheimer
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles Dickens
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