Bbc75 Quotes & Sayings

The idols of modern culture have had a profound influence on the shape of our work today. In traditional societies people found their meaning and sense of value by submitting their interests and sacrificing their desires to serve higher causes like God, family, and other people. In modern societies there is often no higher cause than individual interests and desires. This shift powerfully changed the role of work in people's lives - it now became the way we defined ourselves. Traditional cultures tended to see people's place on the social ladder as assigned by nature or convention, each family having its "proper place." That view had put too little stock in the role of individual talent, ambition, and hard work for determining the outcome of one's life. But modern society responded by putting too much stock in the autonomous person. — Timothy Keller

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed. — Andrew Young

Time is merely a feature of our memories and expectations. — Avicenna

Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away. — A.E. Samaan

In books there's always somebody standing by ready to say hey, the world's in danger, evil's on the rise, but if you're really quick and take this ring and put it in that volcano over there everything will be fine.
But in real life that guy never turns up. He's never there. He's busy handing out advice in the next universe over. In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't. There's no answers in the back of the book. — Lev Grossman

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is. — Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

I'm off everything apart from the fags and the coffee. I don't know if it's worked. It works up until you take your first drink. — Robbie Williams

Rage - whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders' insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us - is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion. — Bonnie Myotai Treace

Show them to me
Show them to me
Unclasp your bra and
set those puppies free — Rodney Carrington

My loyalty is first and foremost, to the people of Singapore. It has always been so, and will always remain so. — Ong Teng Cheong

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female. — Queen Latifah

Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it. — George Washington