Colleague Birthday Quotes & Sayings

But when I'm talking about God, I'm talking about the divine being who can't be located tangibly with the kind of evidence that the rationalism of reductionism demands in the same way that you cannot be located in your eyelashes or spine or shoulder. — Rob Bell

Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you know if a kangaroo can jump higher than a house? Of course it does, a house does not jump at all. 2. — Kevin Moore

He admitted but four elementary principles, or more strictly, conditions of bliss. That which he considered chief was (strange to say!) the simple and purely physical one of free exercise in the open air. "The health," he said, "attainable by other means is scarcely worth the name." He instanced the ecstasies of the fox hunter, and pointed to the tillers of the earth, the only people who, as a class, can be fairly considered happier than others. His second condition was love of woman. His third, and most difficult of realization, was the contempt of ambition. His fourth was an object of unceasing pursuit; and he held that, other things being equal, the extent of attainable happiness was in proportion to the spirituality of this object. — Edgar Allan Poe

Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world. — Thomas Hazlett

Important part of our diplomacy is that people take our words seriously. — George W. Bush

Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever. — Lesley Manville

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there. — Queen Latifah

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together. — Meridel Le Sueur

Perhaps," said the Doctor pensively. "It may also be that you Americans are work-cultists, and work is the structure that holds you up, not the joy of pure living. — Anais Nin

Be confident when facing your enemies; be humble when you defeat them. Break records, then shatter them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby. — Elliott Erwitt

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer. — Cynthia Ozick

We have been taught, in ways large and small, religious and secular, that life is based on hierarchies, and that those higher on these hierarchies dominate those lower, either by right or by might. We have been taught that there are myriad literal and metaphorical food chains where the one at the top is the king of the jungle. — Derrick Jensen