Atheoretical Def Quotes & Sayings

Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

There's no choice left in America anymore. Anything that's authentic and genuine, anything that grew out of any sense of tradition, is wiped out. We're left with this bland monoculture that's swept over the whole country. — Terry Zwigoff

We were at another funeral party. I wasn't sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because it was completely out of season. No on killed themselves in summertime. It was rude. — Marya Hornbacher

As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil ... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good. — Maimonides

This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our results show that babies' minds are built to look for such rules - even without being told. — Gary Marcus

Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin ... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me. — Albert Einstein

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic. — Mahatma Gandhi

In this new world, this day and forever, then, we are not only Thebans - we are all Stepsons. We are all one Sacred Band. If you will have us. And mine will fight by yours, henceforth, as brothers. — Janet Morris

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder. — Kevin Pollak

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow
the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago — Miguel Syjuco

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously. — Maggie Q