Cave Johnson Perpetual Testing Initiative Quotes & Sayings

Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval. — James Lee Burke

We do not have any worldly demands, large or small. We do not have any interest in worldly politics and we have been consciously staying away from it. We believe that getting involved in worldly politics will taint our goal of pleasing God, and will negatively affect our relationship with God as his servants. For this reason, we stay away from political positions which can contaminate our heart and spiritual life. — M. Fethullah Gulen

I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false. — Peter David

Planck length and Planck time had always looked a bit too much like pixel dimensions for comfort. — Peter Watts

It might not be perfect, but the fundamental stance I adopted with regard to my home was to accept it, problems and all, because it was something I myself had chosen. If it had problems, these were almost certainly problems that had originated within me. — Haruki Murakami

I don't want to know what the future will be. I want to live it. — Elisa Sednaoui

I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people. — Henry Allingham

People seem to think, because of the way that the media has appropriated third-wave feminism or young feminism, that all young feminists are about is like pole dancing and girls gone wild and how empowering it is. Like they'll start calling anything feminist. — Jessica Valenti

A good or great performance is like peeling an onion; in every scene you reveal another layer, something the audience hasn't seen until then. They stay involved because they are constantly learning about and discovering the character they are watching. They can't take you for granted and it keeps them hooked. — Larry Moss

And it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. — Colum McCann

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art ... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address. — Joshua Reynolds

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. — Karl Marx

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz. — Steve Reich