Captateur Quotes & Sayings

There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned — Stephen Vincent Benet

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies. — Richard King

There must be grounds for doubt as well as belief in order to render the choice more truly a choice, and therefore more deliberate and laden with more personal vulnerability and investment. An overwhelming preponderance of evidence on either side would make our choice as meaningless as would a loaded gun pointed at our heads. The option to believe must appear on one's personal horizon like the fruit of paradise, perched precariously between sets of demands held in dynamic tension. Fortunately, in this world, one is always provided with sufficient materials out of which to fashion a life of credible conviction or dismissive denial. We are acted upon, in other words, by appeals to our personal values, our yearnings, our fears, our appetites, and our egos. What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance. — Terryl L. Givens

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend ... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. — Ian McKellen

Keep his pants on or take them off? Better keep them on for now, or the whole massage pretense might vanish before it began. — Nina Croft

When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which one are you? — Ricardo Viana Vargas

Adversity Isn't to Be Avoided — Miles Anthony Smith

Oh, great king with your dreams of grandeur yet to come/ vile as you are so shall your end be. — Euripides

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions. — Ezra Taft Benson

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. — N.H. Kleinbaum

You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem. — Stuart J. Russell

A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do this, but you don't have to do it this way. That's their fundamental difference. — Scott Meyers

Although pretend play is important, it is still the means to an end, not the end itself. Do not make the mistake of thinking a contrived, pretend drama can substitute for real interpersonal comfort in dealing with important emotional issues. — Stanley Greenspan