Baculus Pastoralis Quotes & Sayings

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing. — Henry David Thoreau

It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think. — Eunice Parisi-Carew

Strange invitations were often dancing lessons from the goddess. — Ellen Hart

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all. But in general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine our conscious thinking and decide our conclusions. — John Dewey

The things we have in common from our past, long past, are often in my mind. Now that it is all over bar the final destruction of the weapons I look forward to the freedom to lay bare my experiences unfettered by codes now redundant.
This is the only freedom left to me and those Republicans of like mind. — Dolours Price

God, if he wasn't so handsome, strong,
sometimes sweet, didn't have a Harley, that beard, a tendency to play with my hair, didn't look so good in jeans and wasn't so danged good in bed, he would seriously not be worth it. — Kristen Ashley

Frequently, the people in charge of the Beast are the most organized people in the company - people wired to make things happen on track and on budget, as their bosses expect them to do. When those people and their interests become too powerful - when there is not sufficient push-back to protect new ideas - things go wrong. The Beast takes over. — Ed Catmull

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule. — John Irving

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you. — Dalai Lama XIV

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam. — Parker Stevenson

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — John Milton