Ephebians Quotes & Sayings

I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can ... and WINE to help me accept the things I can't! — Tanya Masse

The Ephebians made wine out of anything they could put in a bucket, and ate anything that couldn't climb out of one. — Terry Pratchett

He also discovered that when he touched certain parts of the brain, he triggered long-lost childhood memories or dreamlike scenes - which implied that higher mental activities were also mapped in the brain. — Norman Doidge

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw

If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist. — Rihanna

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky. — Muhammad Ali

The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there, if we need to repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who are struggling, and I'll continue to take that message across the country. — Mitt Romney

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a towel. And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes. — Terry Pratchett

Free trade economists have to explain how free trade can be an explanation for the economic success of today's rich countries, when it simply had not been practised very much before they became rich. — Ha-Joon Chang

You were a jumble of broken bits of glass the sun caught and stained my soul with your colors ... — John Geddes

The Chain Letter to the Ephebians. Forget Your Gods. Be Subjugated. Learn to Fear. Do not break the chain
the last people who did woke up one morning to find fifty thousand armed men on their lawn. — Terry Pratchett

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time. — Giacomo Casanova

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home. — Ben Folds

I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we've finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here."

"I'm not interested in a 'racket.' I'm an academic."

"That's okay, Unc. I won't hold it against you. — Libba Bray