Avington Quotes & Sayings

I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside. — Chris Gabrieli

May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others — Jerry Bridges

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve. — Eugene Wigner

I can cross my arms and I can cross my legs, but nothing seems to cross my mind. — J.R. Rim

I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans. — Rick Atkinson

The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it. — Woody Allen

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Gather information. Seek weakness. Watch, wait, and do what you have to to stay alive! — Octavia E. Butler

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. — Thomas Aquinas

The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts. — John Darnielle

[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do. — James Robertson

It's what makes us different from every other creature in the world - we have time. And we have choices — Douglas Coupland

A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion? — Oliver Heaviside

This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world. — Susan Griffin