Gumbiner Long Beach Quotes & Sayings

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. — Desiderius Erasmus

God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night ... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank? — David Sedaris

Injecting CO2 into an underground reservoir would certainly change the local environment and thus affect the organisms that live there. Some will thrive, and others will suffer. While we should minimize such impacts, they cannot be avoided completely. The same happens when one plows a field, builds a house or a road, or waters a lawn. — Klaus Lackner

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free — Voltaire

The LORD GOD is a shelter from the heat.
The LORD GOD is a refuge from the storm. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world. — Hiro Mashima

Like most marriages, ours eventually wore down all the cartilage. We were a hip needing replacement. Bone on bone, grinding, day in and day out. It worked but it was hard. — Frederick Barthelme

The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones. — John McAfee

Who can I marry? Where can I live? What kind of career can I achieve? These are just some of the stories breaking with Anthem-like implications. And the ideas crushing the individual are all around us, chipping away at us constantly. — Jeff Britting

Meditation here is not reflection or any other kind of discursive thinking. It is pure concentration: training the mind to dwell on an interior focus without wandering, until it becomes absorbed in the object of its contemplation. But absorption does not mean unconsciousness. The outside world may be forgotten, but meditation is a state of intense inner wakefulness. — Anonymous

You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it — Laurie Viera Rigler

God already has our life plan plotted out with exacting precision and perfect timing, and sometimes we have to be patient in order to see God's promises come to pass. — Adam Gellert

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself. — Lily Tomlin