Boeckler Labyrinth Quotes & Sayings

We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below. — Karl Barth

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us. — G.I. Gurdjieff

If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting. — Robert Cecil Martin

This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that. — Bernard Hopkins

It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it. — Warren Buffett

Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society. — Vladimir Lenin

To see the end, go to the end; to see beyond the end, don't go further, because beyond the end, there will remain no observer! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters. — Steven Shainberg

I'm not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself. — Chris Hardwick

I go out every night with a homemade sextant and sight Deneb. It's kind of silly if you think about it. I'm in my space suit on Mars and I'm navigating with sixteenth-century tools. But hey, they work. — Andy Weir

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. — Jared Diamond

Here follows the substance of what I said, written out entirely for your benefit. Pay attention to it, or you will be all abroad, when we get deeper into the story. Clear your mind of the children, or the dinner, or the new bonnet, or what not. Try if you can't forget politics, horses, prices in the city and grievances at the club. I hope you won't take this freedom on my part amiss; it's only a way I have of appealing to a gentle reader. Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in your hands, and don't I know how ready your attention is to wander when it's a book that asks for it, instead of a person? — Wilkie Collins

We don't wear cups. We win them! — Julie Foudy

Jacob opened the refrigerator and stared into it vacantly, with the false purposefulness that lingers for a few moments when a person of a solitary nature is released from the company of a strong personality. — Caleb Crain

Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone. — L.R. Knost