Edward And Alphonse Elric Quotes & Sayings

But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space. — Terence McKenna

Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost. — William Feather

My opinion means nothing. It happens every day. The most unlikely people commit the most unlikely crimes. Nice old ladies poison whole families. Clean-cut kids commit multiple holdups and shootings. Bank managers with spotless records going back twenty years are found out to be long-term embezzlers. And successful and popular and supposedly happy novelists get drunk and put their wives in the hospital. We know damn little about what makes even our best friends tick. — Raymond Chandler

When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear. — Maelle Gavet

If you hold on, if you force yourself as hard as you can to find some kind of patience in the middle of all your impatience, things can change. — Meg Wolitzer

Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds! — William Kamkwamba

Hopefully people are upset for the reason I want them to be upset. Even when I was doing open mics, I've always had people upset. I've never been the consummate crowd-pleaser. — David Cross

He never did his dumb-bells or played in his school fifteen. But the muscles came. He thinks they came while he was reading Pindar. — E. M. Forster

Man does not live by bread alone. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence. — Benjamin Disraeli

When you push people to a point where they have nothing to lose, the rest of the world has everything to lose. — A.C. Flanagan

The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. — Orson Scott Card

I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames. — Annie Dillard

That's the thing about this game
you get a little monkey on your back. You go 0-for-3, you go 0-for-6, pretty soon you start pressing. You keep trying a little harder, and the harder you try, the worse it gets. So, anytime you can break out of it by getting a base hit, it feeds confidence. — Mike Candrea