Googolplex Quotes & Sayings

Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin. — Thomas Aquinas

Although the general character of print-intelligence would be known to anyone who would be reading this book, you may arrive at a reasonably detailed definition of it by simply considering what is demanded of you as you read this book. You are required, first of all, to remain more or less immobile for a fairly long time. If you cannot do this (with this or any other book), our culture may label you as anything from hyperkinetic to undisciplined; in any case, as suffering from some sort of intellectual deficiency. — Neil Postman

The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education. — Julian Castro

Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing. — David Byrne

A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1 ... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still. — Carl Sagan

My existence is such that "I" do not really exist. At the end of understanding so much I understand that I know nothing. I suffer for being surrounded by intense suffering and yet I'm deeply suspicious if first of all there is indeed any consciousness except me. I strive to find the artist who might have fathered this great universal art but feel myself to be too feeble to accomplish this seemingly unattainable mission. Yet I have every respect for life, and it is this sheer respect that makes me live. — Kedar Joshi

Once we got closer to the origins of these Eastern practices, we found that the monks and swamis were just as dogmatic and paternalistic, just as literal and conservative in their approach to spirituality as the Christian priests and ministers we were trying to get away from. — Gudjon Bergmann

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him. — George MacDonald

Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you. — O'Shea Jackson Jr.

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do. — Karl Urban

Hope is the greatest gift ever given or received. — C.E. Weber

The threat of frustration of a biological urge does not cause conflict and anxiety unless that urge is identified with some value essential to the existence of the personality. — Rollo May

Inspiration existis, but it has to find us working. — Pablo Picasso

Kiki had to be carried whenever they left the house, or she'd be eaten by wild animals. At least, that's what Frank seemed to think. The dog, spoiled as she was, wholeheartedly agreed. — Nicole Castle

Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't quite know what.
So he decided to do something helpful instead. — A.A. Milne