Gahring Optical Quotes & Sayings

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me. — Hugh Mackay

software is like sex : it's better when it's free.. — Linus Torvalds

You only get one chance of an England debut. — Alan Shearer

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest. — Lester B. Pearson

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time. — Aung San Suu Kyi

I felt a stack of shelves, and these were filled with plastic bottles and maybe buckets, and one object that felt like the worst thing in the world but which turned out later to be a sandwich. — Adam Rex

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other. — Clive Owen

Death knows his way to us and he'll take it no matter what we do or we don't, but it's life that we should pave the roads that take us there. — Abdullah Abu Snaineh

In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride - or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation - takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we seek to do is assert how well things are going for us, just as friendship has a chance to grow only when we fare to share what we are afraid of and regret. The rest is merely showmanship. The flaws whose exposure we so dread, the indiscretions we know we would be mocked for, the secrets that keep our conversations with our so-called friends superficial and inert - all of these emerge as simply part of the human condition. — Alain De Botton

All we really know of the universe is what filters in through our senses, and that isn't a whole lot. Take the electromagnetic spectrum. It includes virtually every ripple of energy that powers the cosmos, from the long, lazy radio waves we communicate with through microwaves that we cook with all the way up to X-rays and gamma rays, which pack enough punch into their wavelengths to outshine an entire galaxy. All that majesty, all that infinite variety of energy, and all we see is a narrow little slice of it: seven measly colors. It's like being invited to a royal banquet and then only being allowed to pick the crumbs off one plate. — Neil Gaiman