Barefields Quotes & Sayings

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. — Alexander Hamilton

Intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When — Matt Taibbi

I love you as river loves the ocean. — Debasish Mridha

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable. — Harold Bloom

But the years between now and then had been hard ones - and compassion was a soft emotion, easily eroded by circumstance. — Diana Gabaldon

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. — W. Somerset Maugham

The (false) suspicion that we can somehow be separated from God is the root of every form of anxiety in the universe, and the cure for it - which I received partially within the Gateway and completely within the Core - was the knowledge that nothing can tear us from God, ever. — Eben Alexander

Henry rattled on, "We're going to march against — Katherine Ashe

All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you. — John Updike

Reliability depended on redundancy and automatic checking, and human intervention was much more likely to do harm than good. — Arthur C. Clarke

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. — Linus Torvalds