Ermite Quotes & Sayings

I always keep my mind open. For me, a mind has to work like like a parachute, works only if it's open. — Rickson Gracie

Holy Scripture could never lie or err ... its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth. — Galileo Galilei

I am glad to go with my wife and baby boy. — Alex Campbell

PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV. — Kary Mullis

So you open your mouth and listen to yourself say, "I want eight thousand a day. Plus expenses."
This is the polite, industry-standard way of saying "piss off, I'm not interested." You did the math over your morning coffee: You want to earn 100K a year, what with those bonuses you've been pulling on top of your salary. (Besides, a euro doesn't buy what it used to.) There are 250 working days in a year, and a contractor works for roughly 40 per cent of the time, so you need to charge yourself out at 2.5 times your payroll rate, or 1000 a day in order to meet your target. Not interested in the job? Pitch unrealistically high. You never know ...
"Done," says Mr. Pin-Stripe, staring at you expressionlessly. And it is at that point that you realize you are well and truly fucked. — Charles Stross

Some areas of life are not meant to overlap. — Lloyd Jones

#Dialogue does a remarkable thing in restoring mind, that is, to rescue it from authority-systems and rigid beliefs. — Anthony Blake

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. — Publilius Syrus

I think we are living in an era of being hyper-concerned about, Is it us? Because we have this historical awareness. People really want to know: will it be us or our kids or our grandkids to live through this? We don't want it to happen, we don't want to be the ones with the poisoned water, but at the same time, I think there is this curiosity, like, Am I one of the "lucky" ones who gets to be here at the end? That's the tension I'm interested in. — Lucy Corin

I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed. — Marlene Dumas

The immense and undeniable loss of freedoms, as they were in 1900, is undeniable. We have seen the acceleration in efficiency of the tyrannizing factors. It's enough to keep a man worried. Wars are made to make debt. I suppose there's a possible out in space satellites and other ways of making debt. — Ezra Pound

The goal is to build the muscle memory for your child to instinctively ask themselves key questions before making a purchase. — Holly D. Reid

Nought venture, nought have.
[Nothing ventured, nothing gained.] — John Heywood