Commutateur Electrique Quotes & Sayings

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge. — William James

Atheists as well as theists unconsciously observe society's convention that we must be especially polite and respectful to faith. And I never tire of drawing attention to society's tacit acceptance of the labelling of small children with the religious opinions of their parents. Atheists need to raise their own consciousness of the anomaly: religious opinion is the one kind of parental opinion that - by almost universal consent - can be fastened upon children who are, in truth, too young to know what their opinion really is. There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents. Seize every opportunity to ram it home. — Richard Dawkins

Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy, but he and Billy were dealing with similar crises in similar ways. They had both found life meaningless, partly because of what they had seen in war. Rosewater, for instance, had shot a fourteen-year-old fireman, mistaking for a German soldier. So it goes. And Billy had seen the greatest massacre in European history, which was the fire-bombing of Dresden. So it goes.
So they were trying to re-invent themselves and their universe. Science fiction was a big help. — Kurt Vonnegut

I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance. — Robert Kiyosaki

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative. — Susie Orbach

I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God. — Dominic Savio

Progress however slow is still progress, but be it for the better if sped up quicker. — Solange Nicole

Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people? — Wendy Doniger

I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true, and I couldn't hide the truth much longer. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race. — Sylvia Plath

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time. — Johnny Damon

Happy days are golden days, but unhappy days are golden days as well, because existence is a gold! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow. Jack Welch, former CEO of GE — Anonymous

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. — Douglas Adams

With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension. — Ladislav Sutnar

Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market. — Ludwig Von Mises