Edinburghs Hogmanay Quotes & Sayings

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action. — Albert Bandura

One mind equals one advantage;
two minds equals two advantages. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

In 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian imperial heir, was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Do you know the motive behind the act?
It was in retaliation for the subjugation of the Sebs in Austria.
It was not.Franz Ferdinand had stated his intention to introduce reforms favorable to the Serbs in his empire. Had he survived to ascend the throne, he would have made a revolution unnecessary. In plain terms, he was killed because he was going to give the rebels what they were shouting for. They needed a despot in the palace in order to seize it.
What's good for reform is bad for the reformers — Loren D. Estleman

Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set. — Ben Feldman

I have been photographed to death — Marlene Dietrich

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. — Paul Gauguin

Be the kind of person your parents would be proud to know, even if they weren't related to you. — E.J. Hagadorn

By embracing the "outcast," Jesus underscored the "sinfulness" of the persons and systems that cast them out. — Miroslav Volf

It's never too early to think about your legacy," she would say. "Don't you want to leave some kind of mark that you were here? — Ben Tanzer

I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia. — Heinrich Heine

When you die, every single muscle in your body hurts. Your body has closed down because it thinks it's done, and when it gets rebooted, every inch of you hurts. Plus I'd had the shit beaten out of me with a baseball bat. — Nikki Sixx

It could only be the employment of carriage whips, tongs, iron pokers, handsaws, stones, paperweights, or whatever might be handy to break the black body, the black family, the black community, the black nation. The bodies were pulverized into stock and marked with insurance. And — Ta-Nehisi Coates