Apcarg Quotes & Sayings

Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances can be sacrificed to the whim of pleasure or fancy, and before which must bow the fleeting omnipotence of fashion. These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality. — Pope Pius XII

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own. — Yo-Yo Ma

Peter Gibbons: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
Bob Porter: Don't... don't care?
Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime; so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.
Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon?
Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses.
Bob Slydell: Eight?
Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired. — Mike Judge

We marched. Gates opened and closed. We continued to march between the barbed wire. At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was NOT in danger of death? — Elie Wiesel

It indicates a deep confusion of thinking to mistake one's own discomfort for a benefit to another. — Lois McMaster Bujold

...recogniz[ing] the dangerous influence the unknown naturally has on everyone." P.60 — Mark Z. Danielewski

Look, just as time isn't inside clocks
love isn't inside bodies:
bodies only tell the love. — Yehuda Amichai

I felt like the universe was tapping me on the shoulder saying, "You're the guy who has to tell this story because nobody else is." — Joe Berlinger

When I hear that people live by the book, I always wonder which one. — Aleksandra Ninkovic