Gunshopjax Quotes & Sayings

It isn't a matter of wanting it or not," Malcolm said, eyes closed. He spoke slowly, through the drugs. "It's a matter of what you think you can accomplish. When the hunter goes out in the rain forest to seek food for his family, does he expect to control nature? No. He imagines that nature is beyond him. Beyond his understanding. Beyond his control. Maybe he prays to nature, to the fertility of the forest that provides for him. He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it. "But you decide you won't be at the mercy of nature. You decide you'll control nature, and from that moment on you're in deep trouble, because you can't do it. Yet you have made systems that require you to do it. And you can't do it - and you never have - and you never will. Don't confuse things. You can make a boat, but you can't make the ocean. You can make an airplane, but you can't make the air. Your powers are much less than your dreams of reason would have you believe. — Michael Crichton

The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies. — Raymond Sokolov

Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement. — Karl Popper

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh. — Steve Carell

I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do. — Neil Strauss

It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle. — Brian Trubshaw

He held up a hand as we rounded a corner onto a busy street. "Red dragons?" I whispered. "No. Mimes. — Katie MacAlister

If you're in a street fight, you don't go after a man's ball sack. Respect the street code. — Martin Reed

The strength of my country lies in the huts of the poor; in the villages; in the youth, mothers and sisters; in the farmers ... I believe in your strength and hence I believe in the future of our country. — Narendra Modi

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion. — George Packer

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong. — Jeremy Stoppelman

I came to Christ in my early 20s. — Karen Kingsbury

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself ... and let God be God in you — Meister Eckhart

People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight. — Joel Edgerton

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with. — Joel Edgerton