38th Parallel Quotes & Sayings

Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives. — Deborah Day

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by. — Roald Dahl

I felt that I had crossed some threshold, out of the foyer of my life and into the living room. Everything that was the past seemed to be another life. There was before you, and then there was after, and in this after, you were the God I'd never had. I submitted before your needs, and I knew then that I must survive for something more than survival's sake. I must survive for you. You — Ta-Nehisi Coates

If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned. — Jon Gries

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head. — Laura Dern

Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance. — Christopher Hitchens

The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity. — Oswald Chambers

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there. — Mickey Rooney

Concrete experiences serve as the primary building blocks from which we extend our capacity for thought and give rise to more abstracted concepts.

We understand the new in terms of the known. — Nick Sousanis

For many of our Greek friends a book is a final desperate attempt to fill the existential void when there is no one to talk to, nothing to do, no television to view, nothing in the street to watch and even the middle distance holds nothing to stare at. To be seen carrying a book in public, let alone reading one, is a mark of eccentricity or foreignness. — John Mole

God sees no colour but His image. — Evans Biya

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future. — Helen Thomas

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines. — Gilbert Ryle

Trends are manufactured. Real things just happen. — Eicca Toppinen

He who have less knowledge of what competition is about, will least have the knowledge as to how to win a competition. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah