Gyvenimo Prasme Quotes & Sayings

The modern marketer is: an experimenter, a lover of data, a content creator, a justifier of ROI. — Kimberley Walsh

The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind. — James Pierpont

This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States. — Michael Hayden

The hypothesis [of Yahweh's Midianite-Kenite origin] is constructed on four bases:

[1] the narratives dealing with Moses' family and his Midianite in-laws;

[2] poetic texts which are understood to refer to the original residence of Yahweh;

[3] Egyptian topographical texts from the fourteenth to the twelfth century BCE dealing with the Edomite region in which the name Yahweh appears;

[4] and an interpretation of Cain as the eponymous ancestor of the Kenites and the mark of Cain as signifying affiliation to the Yahwistic cult community.

(p. 133)

(from 'The Midianite-Kenite Hypothesis Revisited and the Origins of Judah', JSOT 33.2 (2008): 131-153) — Joseph Blenkinsopp

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. — Samuel George Morton

In many ways, life is about managing your delusions; keeping the ones that nourish and eliminating the ones that poison. — Steve Maraboli

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. — Iris Murdoch

Cruise through the gargantuan sites - YouTube, Amazon, Yahoo! - and it's as though modernism never existed. Twentieth-century print design never existed. European and Japanese design never existed. The Web's aesthetic might be called late-stage Atlantic City or early-stage Mall of America. — Virginia Heffernan

The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts. — Steven Zaillian

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out. — Rupert Everett

The only items you get to keep are love for the work, will to finish, and passion to serve the ethical, creative Muse. — Steven Pressfield

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire. — Laura Schlessinger

From CATS ARE KIND
A man said to the universe,
'Sir, I exist!'
'Excellent,' replied the universe,
'I've been looking for someone to take care of my cats. — Henry N. Beard

Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets
loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today
the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the
techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness. — Alvin Toffler