Harkrider Distributing Quotes & Sayings

Every man lives for himself, using his freedom to attain his personal aims, and feels with his whole being that he can at any moment perform or not perform this or that action; but, so soon as he has done it, that action accomplished at a certain moment in time becomes irrevocable and belongs to history, in which it has not a free but a predestined significance. There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his elemental life as a unit in the human swarm, in which he must inevitably obey the laws laid down for him. — Leo Tolstoy

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting. — James Russell Lowell

I peel
hiss tense fingers
on his right hand
away from
the steering wheel,
one
two
three
four
five.
With each finger,
the scowl
diappears
a little more. when i place
his hand on
my leg
and gently
caress it, he smiles.
That's better. — Lisa Schroeder

In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble. — Benjamin Franklin

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars. — Murray Gell-Mann

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! — Doris Lessing

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera. — Gian Carlo Menotti

I don't believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of. — Paulo Coelho

May the actions that I take toward the good, toward understanding myself, toward being more peaceful be of benefit to all beings everywhere. And — Sharon Salzberg

Relationships are not efficient; they are messy, time-consuming, and unpredictable. — Jefferson Bethke

It is fear that I am most afraid of. — Michel De Montaigne