Acclimating Quotes & Sayings

Likewise, my life had to be steered. And I had to choose who would lead. Would it be me? — Marc Eckel

The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent the market for the old work - is something that benefits all creators, since so few can claim not to have a giant or 10 supporting them underneath. — Jonathan Zittrain

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it — Hannah More

Nothing is more memorable than truth beautifully told. — Rick Julian

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects. — Orison Swett Marden

I had a dream that I could please everyone. Well that will always be a dream, because I find that near to impossible to do. — Starley Ard

Begin each new day with your knees bow in prayer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot imagine that God designed this disproof of His own existence. — James K. Galbraith

Sex times technology equals the future. — J.G. Ballard

If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain. — Frederick Lenz

This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself — Bernadette Roberts