Gruendonnerstag Quotes & Sayings

Mission Control Center (MCC) at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) has got to be one of the most formidable and intellectually stimulating classrooms in the world. Everyone in the room has hard-won expertise in a particular technical area, and they are like spiders, exquisitely sensitive to any vibration in their webs, ready to pounce on problems and efficiently dispose of them. — Chris Hadfield

Civilization did not rise and flourish as men hammered out hunting scenes on bronze gates and whispered philosophy under the stars, with garbage as a noisome offshoot, swept away and forgotten. No, garbage rose first, inciting people to build a civilization in response, in self-defense. We had to find ways to discard our waste, to use what we couldn't discard, to reprocess what we couldn't use. Garbage pushed back. — Don DeLillo

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it. — Sigmund Freud

Detective John Tallow, 1st Precinct."
"You," said Scarly. "I hate you so much my dick is hard. — Warren Ellis

You may be sure that we are as well aware as you of the difficulty of contending against your power and fortune, unless the terms be equal. But we trust that the gods may grant us fortune as good as yours, since we are just men fighting against unjust, and that what we want in power will be made up by the alliance of the Lacedaemonians, who are bound, if only for very shame, to come to the aid of their kindred. Our confidence, therefore, after all is not so utterly irrational.
— Thucydides

Jesus Christ never thinks about what we have been! He always thinks about what we are going to be. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism. — Gary Bauer

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. — Arnold J. Toynbee

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. — John Pople

Books can change the world. They represent a second chance for those that want to change their life and can't. — Robin Sacredfire