Akana Engineering Quotes & Sayings

All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in. — Gwen Ifill

Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy. — Michael Neill

Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going to a funeral without first polishing the automobile. Imagine standing at a graveside not dressed in your best dark suit and your best black shoes, polished delightfully. Imagine sending flowers to a funeral with no attached card to prove you had done the correct thing. In no social institution is the codified ritual of behavior more rigid than in funerals. Imagine the indignation if the minister altered his sermon or experimented with facial expression. Consider the shock if, at the funeral parlors, any chairs were used but those little folding yellow torture chairs with the hard seats. No, dying, a man may be loved, hated, mourned, missed; but once dead he becomes the chief ornament of a complicated and formal social celebration. — John Steinbeck

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy. — Ben Bernanke

For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion. — John Owen

The one who poses the most danger may not be a stranger, Sometimes it's those we hold dear that we really need to fear — Antonia Monacelli

Virtue is harmony. — Pythagoras

A prayer is a chat with thy God. — Toba Beta

Your mind is your nine — Treasure E. Blue

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing. — Merce Cunningham

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales. — David Rose

I feel there's no need to overstate. — Anson Mount

While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth. — Ronald H. Nash

I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it. — Gabriel Macht