1984 Human Condition Quotes & Sayings

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically. — Allan Savory

Do not all great men and women have a few birds in their head? — Edward Stanton

Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can uncork a heady bouquet of recognition which can escape into the cognitive world. — Jack Welpott

It's like tossing a dart," he'd said. "There's nothing amazing about it. You throw and it sticks somewhere. But if you try and backtrack every factor that led there, the force of the throw and the angle and the air resistance, all of it had to be perfect, just exactly right, for it to end up where it did. — Marcus Sakey

Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage. — Maya Angelou

I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead? — Philippa Gregory

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to. — Henry Rollins

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. — Victor Hugo

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with. — Laurie Halse Anderson

No Prophet ever said to follow a church, religion or holy book. Do you think that is just a coincidence? — Ed Strachar

You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it — Laurie Viera Rigler

I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans. — Jackie Chan

On the new earth heaven we will have perfect bodies, resistant to any ailment. Our new bodies will continue on forever, without missing a beat. — Paul P. Enns

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery. — Hermann Hesse