Gekregen Frans Quotes & Sayings

Reason gives us tools to control nature. But it cannot indicate which uses of nature are good or humane. Reason shows us how to achieve our goals. But it cannot determine which goals are right to pursue in the first place. It ascertains what we can do, but not what we should do. What works, but not what is good. Facts, but not values. As a result, many people concluded that the only way to plumb the Big Questions was to "escape from reason" (the title of one of Schaeffer's books). That is, to leave reason behind and take a leap of faith from the lower story to the upper story. — Nancy Pearcey

I don't know that I can define fear. But one of the sources of fear is holding up some sort of model life that doesn't exist and feeling like you're far away from it. — Albert Brooks

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. — John Drinkwater

To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don't win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch. — Dave Winer

I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music. — Jerry Jeff Walker

You want to know my sweet?" I ask her.
She nods.
I kiss her on the forehead. "You. Always you. — Colleen Hoover

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become. — Martin Rees

I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect. — Rameet Chawla

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. — Douglas Adams

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know? — Theodore Bikel

Feelings will get you out of control, but faith doesn't. — Auliq Ice

the character of a life isn't set in three or four big moments of life, but in ten thousand little, virtually unnoticed moments. — Paul David Tripp

Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly. — Jeff Britting

I still fit in with the hillbillies! — Gretchen Wilson

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it. — Bernard Beckett