199th Light Quotes & Sayings

Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface. — Richard Dooling

The ethical decision is always the fearsome decision. When something matters enough that we are afraid of the consequences afraid that even the honorable choice could result in harm or loss or sorrow that's when ethics are involved. — Henry W. Bloch

nothing is louder
than overthinking
after midnight — R H Sin

[But] just as unseen worlds unfold to those who read a book, so worlds hidden to hurried sight unfold to those who choose to spend more than a few moments cultivating their relationship with nature. Paying attention is the key: we interact with each other when we allow it to engage our attention, when we 'read' it with absorption, as we would read a book. [Even] the ficus tree in the office cubicle or the oak planted in the urban sidewalk offers undreamed-of wonders to those who pay attention. Just because to literate people reading a book is unremarkable, available to anyone who can learn the alphabet, it is no less magical. Among my people, children are taught to read books; among some other peoples, children are taught to read the trees. — Priscilla Stuckey

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. — Criss Jami

You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts. — Harvey MacKay

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Theo awoke to a weight of vague unease, not heavy enough to be called anxiety, but a mild unfocused depression, like the last tatters of an unremembered but disagreeable dream. — P.D. James

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right. — Antony Jay

Nothing needs to be done, and things get done. — T. Scott McLeod

I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers. — Linda Ronstadt

I don't think about being sexy, being seductive. What you don't want to see is somebody trying to be sexy. That's the most unsexy thing. — Scarlett Johansson

Send him to the devil, I'm busy. — Leo Tolstoy