Cantamessa Black Quotes & Sayings

If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then? — David Feherty

The next time you hear someone cite, 'Do not kill' when quoting the sixth commandment, gently but firmly explain that it actually says, 'Do not murder. — Dennis Prager

While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power. Anarchists oppose the idea that power and domination are necessary for society, and instead advocate more co-operative, anti-hierarchical forms of social, political and economic organisation. — L. Susan Brown

I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms. — Ramez Naam

The reign of Mazarin is over, but that of the financiers is begun. They have the money; your majesty will not often see much of it. To live under the paw of these hungry wolves is hard for a man who reckoned upon independence. — Alexandre Dumas

(and you've seen me), — Ryan Ferguson

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means. — Brian Crozier

People tell me, "Well, you understand where the voters are, Jeff, where the votes are, or what people are thinking," and they'll sort of - in a complimentary way. And it's a bit of an acknowledgement that we've been blind to some of these issues for too long. — Jeff Sessions

I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible. — Philip Pullman

I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it. Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker, it is not enough these days to simply question authority - you've got to speak with it too. — Taylor Mali

The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife. — Patti Smith

Often we don't realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past. — Robert B. Cialdini

Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.
[First letter to Pope Celestine (1193)] — Eleanor Of Aquitaine