Deranged Archaeologist Quotes & Sayings

Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world. — Howard Berman

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. — Eric Hoffer

The NSA routinely receives - or intercepts - routers, servers, and other computer network devices being exported from the United States before they are delivered to the international customers. The agency then implants backdoor surveillance tools, repackages the devices with a factory seal, and sends them on. — Glenn Greenwald

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death. — Charles De Montesquieu

Play every game as if it is your last one. — Guy Lafleur

On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative - like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories — J.R.R. Tolkien

Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsability, respect and knowledge — Erich Fromm

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles. — Georges St-Pierre

History is boring, unless you see it from the right perspective. perspective is important.
Corn growing in a field appears orderless, till one turns the corner and sees the rows line up. a pixelized photo is unrecognizable, till one zooms out. All the the numbers are on a combination lock but it will not open till they are in the right sequence.
So it is with history - all the names, dates and places are there, but it is not until they are seen from the right perspective that lessons become clear. history is boring, until it comes into focus. — William J. Federer

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. — Monica Edwards

Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves. — Aida Overton Walker

It was all there in that little disc-London, Athens, Jerusalem, Shakespeare. There everyone had lived and everything had happened; and there, presumably, his pack was still lying in the porch of an empty house near Sterk. — C.S. Lewis

I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn't so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things. Society is no help. It tells us again and again that we can most be ourselves by acting and looking like someone else ... — Lucy Grealy

Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away. — Johnny Carson