Instrumented Quotes & Sayings

A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

I just got to the point where I literally didn't want anyone else to do it. — Peter Jackson

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance. — Tennessee Williams

You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open ... — Martha Graham

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it. — Leo Tolstoy

It happened like that in fairytales, you see, oh yes, those heroic men would hack down a forest just to get to you. Where were all the heroes nowadays? She — Caroline Roberts

If somebody doesn't like you, there's nothing you can do to make that person like you. — Edmund Carpenter

If not now, when? — Eckhart Tolle

I'm very thrilled and excited to have been given the opportunity to captain England. — Kevin Pietersen

There's nothing better than being able to give your children wings so they can soar and fly in the direction they want to go in. — Paula Deen

There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, he wants me as his friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given his Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. — J.I. Packer

Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any. — Virginia Woolf

According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly) — Deepak Chopra

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed. — Kiran Desai

I get tired of hearing some science-fiction fans saying that characterization isn't important in SF. In point of fact, I think it's probably more important in SF than in mainstream fiction. After all, if the author can't characterize humans well, he or she probably can't characterize aliens well either. — Robert J. Sawyer

After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented and most puzzling UFO reports into a scientifically defensible conceptual framework. By such reports I mean those with credible multiple or independent witnesses, instrumented observations, and physical evidence. — Jerome Clark