Ace Ventura Mandinga Quotes & Sayings

A slave, Marcus Cato said, should be working when he is not sleeping. It does not matter whether his work is needed or not, he must work, because work in itself is good - for slaves, at least. This sentiment still survives, and it has piled up mountains of useless drudgery. — George Orwell

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds. — Ralph Richardson

Fiction is a tower of glass built from a million tiny truths, grains of sand fused together to make a single, gleaming lie. — Joanne Harris

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss. — George MacDonald

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions. — Karen Thompson Walker

Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild and romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as if her veins were full of wine. — Lola Montez

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature. — Vernon Howard

There is no respect for hidden music — Margaret George

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Once a month, ripe with psychic energy, the moon grows to Her zenith. Blazing full with the sun's rays through the night sky, it is with great compassion and love for her children that she luminesces. — Lawren Leo

At a time of change and challenge at home and abroad, these investments will enhance the security of Americans, assure the future American leadership, and help build the foundations of peace, stability, and prosperity in the years ahead. — Hillary Clinton

From Hellstrom's Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter. This fixed the colony as the unit of natural selection and removed all previous limits on the amount of specialization (expressed as caste differences) that a colony could tolerate. It is clear that if we vertebrates can take the same route, our individual members with their vastly larger brains will become incomparably superior specialists. No other species will be able to stand against us, ever - not even the old human species from which we will evolve our new humans. — Frank Herbert