Isunglasses Quotes & Sayings

With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language, and led to numerous new methodologies and applications
systems engineering, systems analysis, systems dynamics, and so on. — Fritjof Capra

You've got spirit; I like that. It's so much more fun when I break it. Make no mistake, little boy, you are about to enter a world of pain. I am going to make you suffer for every offense you've given me."

-Theoden to Noel — Nicholas Bella

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure. — Dermot Healy

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. — Denis Diderot

When Christianity proscribed the public exercise of the ancient worships, the partisans of the latter were compelled to meet in secret for the celebration of their mysteries. Initiates presided over these assemblies and soon established a kind of orthodoxy among the varieties of persecuted worships, this being facilitated by the aid of magical truth and by the fact that proscription unites wills and forges bonds of brotherhood between men. — Eliphas Levi

Seeing me in love is a constant state: there are no questions, as the answer is simply there. — Shakira

In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings. — Frank Deford

him up, of course. I don't know whether they — Harry Truman

Are you insane?"
"I know. I know what you're thinking, but I had to. It was The One. And I was right! I haven't seen one since that was as perfect as this one! — Jamie McGuire

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat. — John Ortberg

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing ... I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them. — Kingsley Amis

Whether we are men dreaming we are butterflies or butterflies dreaming we are men, the one truth is that all life is an illusion. We are all wandering shades. — Jenifer Mohammed

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'
not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style. — Martin Amis

The game is never lost till won. — George Crabbe