500b Stimulus Quotes & Sayings

There is no backstory in dream. Time slips all its handcuffs. So: — Gregory Maguire

Blessed are the ones who have become spiritually "domesticated"; the ones who have tamed the wild animal energy within them, the passions and compulsions of our lower nature. — Cynthia Bourgeault

My first order of business was to look in the side pocket where I had hidden my garnet and gold necklace. — Nancy B. Brewer

I think you had better learn to control that imagination of yours,Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isnt. — L.M. Montgomery

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words. — Zell Miller

In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding ... — Friedrich August Von Hayek

God punishing people for being good. God loving some people more than others. God asking fathers to kill their kids as proof of their faith. God giving kings special powers so they can slaughter entire nations. God not jumping in when His own kid get murdered. That's some crazy shit If that's the God they want me to believe in, no thank you. Ship me off to Hell right now so I can toss back a cold one with the zillion other people God never tortured with His infinite kindness. — Scott Blagden

If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is. — Edward Witten

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them. — Theodore Sturgeon

You can absolutely drive through an atmospheric bomb test and not be affected. — Annie Jacobsen

Any man, in the right circumstances, could be dehumanized by panic. If — Arthur C. Clarke

Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends. — Mahatma Gandhi

We could sit here and get super-high and talk about the illusory nature of reality, drawing back the veil, and so on, but what I'm learning is this: that loving anything or anyone this much requires you to hold conflicting thoughts in your head and heart. I want to look at [my daughter's] dear, dear little face forever; [but] nothing lasts forever...I will die, her father will die, my little family that is the whole heart of me is the tiniest of tiny blips in the sweep of space and time. We are nothing. We are part of something so grand we cannot hope to apprehend it. We are all lost. We are all floating in space. We were never lost. We will go home. — Emily Flake