Abrantes Mapa Quotes & Sayings

The conflict is along the line of turning our natural life into a spiritual life, and this is never done easily, nor does God intend it to be done easily. It is done only by a series of moral choices. — Oswald Chambers

Whatever you are aiming at in life, willpower is one of your most important resources. — Frank Martela

If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill! — Max Frisch

If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. There's a quote there about how philosophers say a great deal about what science absolutely requires, and it is all wrong, because the only rule in science is that the final arbiter is observation - that you just have to look at the world and report what you see. Um ... off the top of my head I can't think of where to find something about how it's an ideal of science to settle things by experiment instead of arguments - — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Some women are born mothers, some women become mothers, and some have motherhood thrust upon them. I struggled against it all my life, but I think the truth is I was probably born to it. I don't do badly, I don't do well, I just do it. — Fay Weldon

I had designed -in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job. — Steve Wozniak

But MacCurdy's idea about near and remote misses suggests something quite different - that courage is in some sense acquired. — Malcolm Gladwell

Only when that mortal "you" will have erased everything about itself that it cherishes and is holding to, will "you" have come to the brink of an experience of identity with that Being which is no being yet is the Being beyond the nonbeing of all things. Nor is It anything that you have ever known, ever named, or even thought about in this world: — Joseph Campbell

That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem. — Drew Chadwick

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible. — Jessica Alba

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing. — Peter Lynch

Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of the game's appeal, as a conversation piece, lies in the opportunity the fan gets to back up opinions and arguments with convincing figures, and it is entirely possible that more American boys have mastered long division by dealing with batting averages than in any other way. — Leonard Koppett