Halcyone Name Quotes & Sayings

When the farthest corner of the globe has been conquered
technologically and can be exploited economically; when any incident you like, in any place you like, at any time you like, becomes
accessible as fast as you like; when you can simultaneously "experience" an assassination attempt against a king in France and a symphony concert in Tokyo; when time is nothing but speed, instantaneity, and simultaneity, and time as history has vanished from all
Being of all peoples; when a boxer counts as the great man of a
people; when the tallies of millions at mass meetings are a triumph;
then, yes then, there still looms like a specter over all this uproar the
question: what for? - where to? - and what then? — Martin Heidegger

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there. — Jim Rohn

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions. — Marilyn Monroe

That first kill taught him how easy it was. It taught him violence wasn't the final refuge of the stupid, but rather the final refuge of a man unwilling to lose. — Michael R. Fletcher

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment — Wangari Maathai

The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match. — Vijay Kumar

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think. — Edward De Bono

The karma that is most interesting is the mental karma because ultimately it generates physical action. — Frederick Lenz

The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0. — George Hamilton

Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception. — Jacques Vallee

Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests ... the reason for the wax is that the E.T.S. tests persist in showing some people to be smarter than others. And if some people are smarter than others, there might actually be some justification for an economic system in which some people have more money and authority than others. — Daniel Seligman