Borgias Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding. — Robert M. Pirsig

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind. — Derrick Jensen

Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words. — Billy Connolly

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it. — David Limbaugh

When you've already broken the rules of the universe, fear becomes only a feeling of disconnection, distant. — Jonas Samuelle

A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help. — W. Edwards Deming

Our understanding is a faculty of concepts, i.e., a discursive understanding, for which it must of course be contingent what and how different might be the particular that can be given to it in nature and brought under its concepts. — Immanuel Kant

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite. — Earl Nightingale

A solid 70 percent of houses guessed that I was dressed as a fancy pimp. Whatever - I still got candy. Molly went as a calculator. So, anyway, that was the Halloween I dressed as A Source of Concern to My Family. — Dave Holmes

As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we're like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can't see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it's there. — Jack Finney

The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold. — Federico Garcia Lorca

If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is. — Ringo Starr

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate. — Anna Deavere Smith

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat. — Lucille Kallen

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit. — Peter Hammill