Cardoen Gent Quotes & Sayings

The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied with their simple life and therefore do not seek to increase their material enjoyment ... They are satisfied with their present lot and environment and therefore do not want to conquer nature but merely be at home with nature and at peace with their lot. — Hu Shih

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers. — Justin Long

And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. — Ecclesiastes 12 12

Epic love story has only love between two people but do not have 'they lived happily ever after — Santosh Avvannavar

Heidi's room looked like the aftermath of a not-very-successful airplane bombing. Something that blew open every suitcase in the luggage compartment without bringing the plane down. — William Gibson

If you have one person you're influenced by, everyone will say you're the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you're so original. — Austin Kleon

Competition forces factory owners to mechanize production, so as to reduce labor costs, but while this is to the short-term advantage of the individual firm, the overall effect of such mechanization is actually to drive the overall rate of profit of all firms down. — David Graeber

There is a second reason for not scheduling yourself at full capacity: you operate better when you have space to think. — Matt Perman

It was then I was seeing the wisdom of doing what I could to amass a girl posse who knew how to deal with "uber-alphas" because they could share their wisdom. — Kristen Ashley

We may talk of the best means of doing good; but, after all, the greatest difficulty lies in doing it in a proper spirit. Speak- the truth in love, "in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves" - with the meekness and gentleness of Christ. — Asahel Nettleton

I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life. — Kurt Fuller