Hecates Wheel Quotes & Sayings

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination. — Noah Richler

When in doubt, always act on the assumption that people are more honorable than you have any solid reason for supposing they are. — Aldous Huxley

The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog's tail wags to communicate. You can't make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can't change people's minds by utterly refuting their arguments. — Jonathan Haidt

The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed ... But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade. — Ronald Reagan

Many people strive for success in order to find happiness when, in fact, the inverse is true. Strive for happiness and you shall find success. — Steve Maraboli

power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get the outcomes one wants. — Joseph S. Nye Jr.

I'm from New York, and yet I've done only one film executive-produced by Spike Lee and have never done a film that Spike Lee directed. I've never done a film that Keenan Wayans has directed, or Bill Duke. — Ving Rhames

Life in God should be a daring adventure of love - a continuous journey of putting aside our securities to enter more profoundly into the uncharted depths of God. Too often, however, we settle for mediocrity. We follow the rules and practices of prayer but we are unwilling or, for various reasons, unable to give ourselves totally to God. To settle on the plain of mediocrity is really to settle for something less than God that leaves the heart restless and unfulfilled. A story from the desert fathers reminds us that giving oneself wholly to God can make a difference: Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said to him, "Abba, as far as I can I say my little office, I fast a little, I pray and meditate, I live in peace and as far as I can, I purify my thoughts. What else can I do?" Then the old man stood up and stretched his hands towards heaven. His fingers became like ten lamps of fire and he said to him, "If you will, you can become all flame."15 — Ilia Delio

I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.' — Willard Wigan

The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over. — Sparky Anderson

We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel. — David Ben-Gurion

she has a blank sheet to write upon. — Noam Chomsky

Describe your state of mine. Insecure. Uncertain. Feverish — William Boyd

Sometimes weakness wore the face of strength, and sometimes strength wore the face of weakness. — Roshani Chokshi

Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand. — Clarence Darrow