Athwart Define Quotes & Sayings

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. — Diane Ackerman

I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us. — Michael Moorcock

As Pierre Bourdieu was later to point out in describing a similar economy of trust in contemporary Algeria: it's quite possible to turn honor into money, almost impossible to convert money into honor. — David Graeber

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone. — Bryant H. McGill

I'm thinking that I like you, and that's a problem for me."
His serious tone startles me. "Why's it a problem?"
"Because I don't like people," he says bluntly. "I deal with people. — J.M. Darhower

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella. — John Steinbeck

Each algorithm is a feedback loop, taking an action, observing the resulting conditions, and taking another action after that. Again, and again, and again. It's an iterative process, in which the algorithms adjust themselves and their activity on every loop, responding less to the news on the ground than to one another. Such systems go out of control because the feedback of their own activity has become louder than the original signal. — Douglas Rushkoff

None of my friends knows that most of the sick days I've taken from work are not sick days, but Austen days. — Laurie Viera Rigler

Security is the chief enemy of mortals. — William Shakespeare

I'm beginning to wish I'd had you deported after the first murder! Death seems to follow you around like the plague. — Steve Robinson

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud. — Eddie Vedder

Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another. — Stefan Zweig

You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump? — Johnny Knoxville