Desaturating 7 Quotes & Sayings

Every human desires peace and happiness, but only a few have the goal to attain those. — Debasish Mridha

She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people at each other's throat, everybody in a state of upset and talking about her. — David Gilmour

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You can't relate to an absolute or it wouldn't be absolute, it would be relative. On an intellectual level, that's easy. However, you hear theologians in the theistic traditions talk about absolute God, and I saw God, or God spoke; speaking, being seen, these are all relational things. So what is absolute about such a being, wouldn't actually be absolute. — Robert Thurman

The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly. — Edward Abbey

Before God, I love you and cherish you more than anything in the world. Of course I want to marry you. I love you heart and soul. — Philippa Gregory

He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise — F Scott Fitzgerald

A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

With all of my films that are on DVD and Blu-ray, I have spent weeks with them in a color timing room. Just changing or enhancing them. I have been desaturating the color. Sometimes I will make a scene bluer or redder. I do use the new medium. I believe in it. — William Friedkin

Beware of stupid people who are motivated and energetic. — Margaret Catley-Carlson

I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after. — Peter Orner

Nirvana is the extinction of desire and the full awakening that results from this extinction. It is not simply the dissolution of all ego-limits, a quasi-infinite expansion of the ego into an ocean of self-satisfaction and annihilation. This is the last and worst illusion of the ascetic who, having "crossed to the other shore," says to himself with satisfaction: "I have at last crossed to the other shore." He has, of course, crossed nothing. He is still where he was, as broken as ever. He is in the darkness of Avidya. He has only managed to find a pill that produces a spurious light and deadens a little of the pain. — Thomas Merton

She envied him. She envied him his faith there would always be a place, a home, a job, someone else for him. She envied him that attitude. — Patricia Highsmith