Aeolis Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Who scorns his own life is lord of yours. — Seneca.

GNP is therefore in a certain sense a value-neutral quantity: a measure of activity, not of activity of any kind of value. A first argument against continued growth is just this. The GNP does not give any guarantee of meaningfulness of that which is created. Growth in GNP does not imply any growth in access to intrinsic values and progress along the course of self-realization. Obviously any kind of economic growth which is not related to intrinsic values is neutral or detrimental. The measure of GNP is somehow related to the fierceness of activity in the society but this fierceness may very well have more to do with a lack of ability of the members of the society to engage in meaningful activity than a measure of something humanity should look upon with joy. There is no clear relation to life quality. — Arne Naess

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. — William Randolph

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die. — Nawal El Saadawi

I can't change yesterday, but I can sure mess up today. — Charlton Heston

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old. — Leonard Susskind

This yearning for new and distant scenes, this craving for freedom, release, forgetfulness
they were he admitted to himself, an impulse towards flight, flight from the spot which was the daily theatre of a rigid, cold, and passionate service. — Thomas Mann

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence. — Mahatma Gandhi

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. — Benjamin Disraeli

We also have noses that run and feet that smell.Sometimes the universe just doesn't make sense. — Alex Bledsoe

There's something I want to show you. Do you think anyone would notice if we slipped away for a bit?" He raised an eyebrow at her. "Given that we make up a full quarter of the guest list, I would be a little insulted if they didn't notice." "It was a rhetorical question. — Marissa Meyer