Ducrest Gilfry Quotes & Sayings

The present moment is the definition of eternity. It has never not been the present moment. This isn't scriptural or unscriptural - it is merely a logical fact. — John Kuypers

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology. — Lord Acton

I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had ever known. Would it be worth it to give it all up? I had no way of knowing. It was frightening even to contemplate a life beyond — Carolyn Jessop

I see what's behind everything the director wants to do. — Jordi Molla

Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously. — Vijay Kumar

Any time you are in the content creation business, you have to leverage that content in as many ways as possible. DVD is one valuable secondary growth channel for HBO. Maybe the Internet is next. — James Goss

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer. — Irving Penn

Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended. — Tom Stoppard

Relaxation is the absence of worry. — Albert Brooks

Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its law. — Plato

However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this special condition of organization of man has been gradually acquired at the close of a long period of time, with the aid of circumstances which have proved favorable? What a subject for reflection for those who have the courage to enter into it! — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

There were two main sources of technical knowledge and innovation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the hobbyist and the English rector, both of whom were generally in barbell situations. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China is going to have to have new technologies made available to it to stop this. They're not going to live in poverty. — Jay Inslee

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe