Copingskills4kids Quotes & Sayings

I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what's going on but that the planets know what's going on. — Brian Eno

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event. — Billy Wilder

I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And we all live longer, better lives because of this dispassionate view. Sure, it commands awe and provides inspiration. Still, I would rather be operated on by a surgeon who sees me as an assemblage of atoms than one who lovingly tries to manipulate what he or she imagines are my vital energy fields. — Victor J. Stenger

Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope. — Edith Wharton

What you do has far greater impact than what you say. — Stephen Covey

If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it. — Yunjin Kim

...there's no mistake if you can resolve it, whether it's in your music or in your life. Sometimes the mistake motivates you or elevates you to a different circumstance that can be better. If I make a mistake, I'm going to develop that mistake, so it doesn't sound like a mistake. -Dave Brubeck — Andrew Zuckerman

My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and moral implications here, and I'm not sure that we have grappled with any of them. — Evgeny Morozov

[American football] fanbase resemble that of contemporary boxing: rich people watching poor people play a game they would never play themselves. — Chuck Klosterman

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. — Eric Hoffer