Gombrich Chapter Quotes & Sayings

If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then? — David Feherty

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me. — John Lasseter

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. — Albert Einstein

Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don't know and have compassion for them at the same time? — Wendell Berry

The Bodhi Tree Grows in L.A. — Bhante Walpola Piyananda

As long as it's a regular day, not too rough to begin with, the ocean is pretty smooth once you make it out past the first set of waves. That's why people are afriad to swim in the ocean. They try to jump over those waves and get slammed down to the bottom and pulled across the sand like a piece of shell. You've got to go throught them, dive under just when they're rising up for you, set your direction, close your eyes, and just swim like hell. Once you get throught that, you'll find there isn't a better place for swimming because it's the ocean and it goes on forever. You don't have to see anyone if you don't want to. If you look out, away from the beach, it's easy to imagine that there's no one else but you in the whole world, you and maybe a couple of sea gulls. — Ann Patchett

And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a moment, against cloudless blue skies. — Nancy Stephan

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of ... permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power. — Jimmy Carter

I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day! — Adriana Lima

When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber. — George Carlin

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct. — Ava DuVernay

If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. — Rick Warren