Curiosear Quotes & Sayings

We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn. — George Washington

He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye. — Ramana Maharshi

If there's a perfect family out there, we're all happy for that family. But most families aren't perfect. Most families are living with some sort of challenge or some sort of difficulty. — Louie Giglio

the means one uses today shape the ends one might perhaps reach tomorrow — Albert Camus

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000. — John Oates

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist. — Jerry Yang

You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games. — Don Shula

The changeover from one medium to another presents both opportunities and challenges. New technologies empower us, to be sure; but never without some cost which we universally fail to anticipate. We must avoid celebrating the advantages too enthusiastically, lest we miss the meaning of the challenges. For once the changeover is complete, the opportunities and challenges fully assimilated, we will certainly be impotent to undo them. — Peter K. Fallon

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending? — Judy Woodruff

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you. — Octave Mirbeau

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know. — Rob Bell

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination. — Abraham Zaleznik

The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands, and communities, their forests, wetlands, and prairies, their ecosystems and watersheds. They had accepted universal pollution and global warming as normal costs of doing business. — Wendell Berry

Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut. — Will Cuppy