Ihtiyar Quotes & Sayings

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing. — Aimee Mann

Certain portions of the earth, escaping utter destruction, become the seedbeds for replenishing the human race, and so it happens that on a world that is not young there are young populations having no culture, whose traditions were swept away in a debacle; they wander over the earth and gradually put aside the roughness of a nomadic existence and by natural inclunation submit to communities and associations; their mode of living is at first simple, knowking no guile and strange to cunning, called in its early stage the Golden Age. [16] The more these populations progress in civilization and employment of the arts, the more easily does the spirit of rivalry creep in, at first commendable but imperceptibly changing to envy; this, then, is responsible for all the tribulations that the race suffers in subsequent ages. So much for the vicissitudes that civilizations experience, of perishing and arising again, as the world goes on unchanged.
[Chapter X - 15,16] — Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever. — Ezra Pound

Do you think it's possible to change something in humanity, not risking? If someone tries to change something and is not risking, it probably means he's not changing anything. — Leoluca Orlando

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem. — Ray Dalio

Criticism hurts most because it comes from another person and abuse is most damaging when it comes from someone who should love us. — Dave Mearns

Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery. — Ernest Rutherford

I think that that is a wonderful format - you know, having individual stories over a period of weeks that are thematically connected in terms of genre - there's not enough of that out there. — Richard Thomas

As of now, it takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel to produce a calorie of food energy for humans - somewhere between four and ten calories of fossil fuel for a calorie of food. The fossil fuel is in both the fertilizer and the pesticides, and it's essential to the machinery needed to plant, harvest, process, and transport grain. All told, an acre of corn drinks about fifty gallons of oil. — Lierre Keith

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

I'm not fond of a tradition that requires people to open the door for strangers. Or for kids to take candy from strangers. — Megan Erickson

I think love is nothing but a fallacy propagated by the greeting card industry and a billion-dollar bridal enterprise that feeds into the fantasy of every little girl. — Addison Moore

He stumbled and told the truth one night: workers had lost protections under WorkChoices. — David Marr

I've never heard of William Craig. A debate with him might look good on his resume, but it wouldn't look good on mine! — Richard Dawkins