1644 X Quotes & Sayings

All mechanical habits are bad and slavish, and this one is ferocious as well. Of course, if you look upon the work of the revolutionist as the mere wresting of certain definite concessions from the government, then the secret sect and the knife must seem to you the best weapons, for there is nothing else which all governments so dread. But if you think, as I do, that to force the government's hand is not an end in itself, but only a means to an end, and that what we really need to reform is the relation between man and man, then you must go differently to work. Accustoming ignorant people to the sight of blood is not the way to raise the value they put on human life. — Ethel Lilian Voynich

Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people. — Stephen Colbert

I've got ... ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it — Jeff VanderMeer

I want to express my deepest condolences at the passing of Steve Jobs, one of the founders of our industry and a true visionary. My heart goes out to his family, everyone at Apple and everyone who has been touched by his work, — Steve Ballmer

I have a job that allows me not to look perfect all the time. I can just go looking the way I look, have my hair just any old type of way. — Zendaya

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious. — John Coltrane

When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure or failed systems, or the way that people are crushed by a system in which they find themselves. — Simon McBurney

To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other. — Michael Hastings

God is either cruel or incompetent. — Woody Allen

Better known as the Secret of the Golden Flower, this is a famous neidan text that the Western world came to know through Richard Wilhelm's 1929 translation. The Chinese text used by Wilhelm was edited by Zhanran Huizhen zi in 1921. Besides this, at least five more versions are available, all of which date to the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and are ascribed to Lu Dongbin, who revealed them through spirit writing. — Monica Esposito

It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want to go outside. — Peter Rock

And the stitches in my heart begin to pop. One by one. — Tahereh Mafi

Nothing great in this world has ever been accomplished without passion" Hegel — Herve Lebret

Then, in 1632, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) published his Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems), wherein he established the superiority of the Copernican model. For this, as well as for the disrespectful tone of the book toward Pope Urban VIII (1568-1644), Galileo was tried and convicted of heresy, forced to recant his championing of the heliocentric model, and spent the remainder of his life under house arrest. Nevertheless, — Stephen Penner

what to do with her. She'd rebelled because she'd wanted their attention. Any of their attention. All of their — Karen Rose Smith