Contraption Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete. — Max Horkheimer

As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn puts it, If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who among us is willing to destroy a piece of their own heart? — Jack Kornfield

The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other. — Elbert Hubbard

After a few decades, you come to a place where you realize that there's really no difference between trying and not trying ... If someone is ready to accept Christ, it doesn't take much effort on my part to help them. If they aren't, no amount of hectoring them does any good. So why try? — James S.A. Corey

One has no protecting power save prudence.
[Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.] — Juvenal

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!' — Moby

I feel as if my every move is being controlled by some kind of incredibly long arm that's reaching out from somewhere far away, and that my life has been nothing more than a convenient passageway for all these things moving through it. — Haruki Murakami

Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world — Amby Burfoot

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it. — Scott Walker

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. — Mark Twain

So let's raise our glass to the accident season,
To the river beneath us where we sink our souls,
To the bruises and secrets, to the ghosts in the ceiling,
One more drink for the watery road. — Moira Fowley-Doyle

I photographed with film for many years; now that I work in digital, the difference is enormous. The quality is unbelievable: I don't use flash, and with digital I can even work in very bad light. Also, it's a relief not to lose photographs to x-ray machines in airports. — Sebastiao Salgado