Cheneaux Islands Quotes & Sayings

Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it. — Seneca The Younger

Life was full of lost worlds. You could travel miles of twisting roads and think you're far away from all you know and suddenly stumble on the scrap of one. — Carolina De Robertis

Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot ... — Swami Vivekananda

Uncle Yuichi: Something's moving up there? Hmm... I don't see anything. It was probably a satelite.

Punpun (with gums flapping): Could I have discovered a new planet?!

(long pause)

Yuichi: Yes! This could be a great discovery! If it really is a new planet... It'll be called Planet PunPun!

Punpun (slobbering again): Do you think I'll win the Nobel Prise?!

Yuichi: You sure are a greedy kid. — Inio Asano

Above all, the normalcy of society's routines tells us that this way of life is normal. For many people, the most powerful enforcer of the habits of separation is money. Usually, — Charles Eisenstein

A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral - everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief. — Andrew Holleran

Our local department store had two Santas - one for regular kids and one for kids who wanted ten toys or less. — Milton Berle

You've got yourself a cloned body here, Jim. — John Scalzi

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears. — Charles Spurgeon

Not futuristic enough? What about an interspecies Internet - one that links elephants, dolphins, and great apes for "the purposes of enrichment, research, and preservation"? Though it may sound crazy, it's already here. In Australia, for example, there are over 300 sharks on Twitter (no, they did not sign up themselves). Researchers fitted 338 sharks, including many great whites, with acoustic tags that send an electronic signal to shore-based receivers when the animals come within half a mile of the beach. For a country that has suffered more fatal shark attacks than any other, this IoT development is saving human lives, and the sharks have attracted nearly forty thousand beach-going Twitter followers as a result. — Marc Goodman

What differentiated us was our perception of our mutual reality, which made no difference. — Mie Hansson

Self-promotion is a leadership and political skill that is critical to master in order to navigate the realities of the workplace and position you for success. — Bonnie Marcus

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut. — Jacob Lew