Disassembling 1911 Quotes & Sayings

Beware of your thoughts for they become words, beware of your words for they become actions, beware of your actions for they become habits, beware of your habits for they become character, beware of your character for it becomes your destiny. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Everywhere you go, take a smile with you. — Sasha Azevedo

I took comfort that its IQ, while no doubt high enough to allow it to run for elective office, seemed to be only a fraction of mine. — Dean Koontz

Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things, thinking the same old thoughts. Repentance is a decision to follow Jesus Christ and become his pilgrim in the path of peace. Repentance is the most practical of all words and the most practical of all acts. It is a feet-on-the-ground-kind-of-word. It puts a person in touch with the reality that God creates. — Eugene H. Peterson

I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it
was upon a hill. — Wallace Stevens

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. — Joni Mitchell

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true. — Richard Dawkins

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Well you know you're really dedicated to something when you lie about being hurt so no one will make you stop — Richie McCaw

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. — Werner Herzog

I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that natural selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification. — Charles Darwin

I looked for Gary in all of the Gary places, but I was too early. These places were all haunted by the future of Gary. — Sam Lipsyte

I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city. — Warren Giles

Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly. — Corin Nemec