Ducal Beans Quotes & Sayings

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough. — Christine Keeler

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. — Margaret Mead

Wealth is thoughts, not things. — Robert G. Allen

I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned. — James Beard

Identifying a potential threat feels curiously good. You're like a gazelle that smells a lion and can't relax until it sees where the lion is. Seeing a lion feels good when the alternative is worse. We seek evidence of threats to feel safe, and we get a dopamine boost when we find what we seek. You can also get a serotonin boost from the feeling of being right, and an oxytocin boost from bonding with those who sense the same threat. This is why people seem oddly pleased to find evidence of doom and gloom. But the pleasure doesn't last because the "do something" feeling commands your attention again. You can end up feeling bad a lot even if you're successful in your survival efforts. — Loretta Graziano Breuning

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters. — Theodor Adorno

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The general picture was that Ymir would not be anything like the traditional idea of a spaceship, in the sense of an orderly, symmetrical piece of architecture. It would be more like a flying robotic anthill, constructed out of a natural found object. The robots crawling around on and in it had general instructions as to what they were supposed to be doing, but could make their own judgments from moment to moment to avoid collision with other robots, or from hour to hour as to when they needed to recharge their batteries. — Neal Stephenson

[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo. — Mary Pickford

Everybody's forgiven you but you. And you are so far behind us." "You might be surprised about that. — Lev Grossman

Erich, they differ from us only in the limitations imposed upon them by stone, as opposed to iron and steel. — Torsten Krol