Assortments Of Fresh Quotes & Sayings

As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable. — Rachel Maddow

the gift is having a daughter more gentle
than you are, whose laughter is finer
than yours. — Charles Bukowski

Normal is the greatest enemy with regard to creating the new. And the way of getting around this is you have to understand normal not as reality, but just a construct. And a way to do that, for example, is just travel to a lot of different countries and you'll find a thousand different ways of thinking the world is real, all of which are just stories inside of people's heads. That's what we are too. Normal is just a construct, and to the extent that you can see normal as a construct in yourself, you have freed yourself from the constraints of thinking this is the way the world is. Because it isn't. This is the way we are. — Alan Kay

I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete. — Bette Davis

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment. — Maya Angelou

Shambhala vision teaches that in the face of the world's great problems, we can be heroic and kind at the same time. — Chogyam Trungpa

I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity. — Frances Trollope

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change. — Mitch Kapor

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart ... it comes from being alive. — Richard Carlson

To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV. — Jonathan Nolan