Fleckenstein Park Quotes & Sayings

The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money to be true. — Paul Ormerod

In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword. — H.E. Davey

For we are all sprung from earth and water — Xenophanes

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame. — Frank Herbert

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson — Eugene H. Peterson

Sometimes when Anna is talking to Louise she sees words coming out of her mouth like fistfuls of stones. But she doesn't intend to spew stones; it's simply the only way Anna knows how to takl to her mother. — Jessica Anya Blau

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people. — Abraham Lincoln

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. — Chris Abani

In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next ... — Steve Almond

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. — Arthur Henderson

To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They are publicly buying democracy. — Stephen Colbert

Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history. — A.C. Grayling

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. — Gloria Steinem

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring. — Elton John

As architect of your reality, you have the power to create it as you choose. — Amy Leigh Mercree