Asymptotically Efficient Quotes & Sayings

I mightn't be a shaman in the indigenous sense, but as a world-bridger between Western culture and the indigenous world, I knew I was playing a shamanistic role. Language was my medicine and with it I would do my best to record my awakening and help heal with my words ... The journey isn't over yet. — Rak Razam

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. — Wayne Dyer

When we went into the New England states, people were talking about the new sound of Flatt & Scruggs, but we had been doing that sound for 20 years. — Lester Flatt

God was thinking of you long before you ever thought about him. His purpose for your life predates your conception. He planned it before you existed, without your input! — Rick Warren

An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal. — Fuller Albright

A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Another difference between psychopaths and other inmates is that psychopaths don't get distressed by being in prison. Most inmates get depressed when they get inside, and they find prison to be a stressful experience. A hallmark feature of psychopaths' disorder is that they don't get bothered by much of anything. They don't ruminate and they don't get depressed. — Kent A. Kiehl

Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times. — Barbara W. Tuchman

When I was first elected to the House in 2006, it was important to me to send a clear message to the people of NY-20: I wanted to be a representative for the people and shed some light on their government, so I became the first member of Congress to post my schedule, my financial disclosures and my earmark requests all online. — Kirsten Gillibrand

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. — Philip Wylie

Hmm ... my bedroom's really messy. It's probably the messiest bedroom you could ever think of. Like, you think it's messy, but when you go there, you can't see one bit of floor anywhere. Clothes, makeup ... I'm getting sent loads of clothes and stuff, so it's just piling up everywhere. I've to jump over it in order to get into my bed. — Pixie Lott

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. — Guillaume Apollinaire