Jance Ja Quotes & Sayings

Knowing how things work reduces the effort.
This is the fundamental principle of technology. — Toba Beta

Better to be screwed physically than financially. — Charlaine Harris

Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to burn sugar, which is the last thing a distance runner wants. You've got enough fat stored to run to California, so the more you train your body to burn fat instead of sugar, the longer your limited sugar tank is going to last."
-The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold
your hard-breathing point
during your endurance runs. — Christopher McDougall

But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope), ... — Ernest Hemingway,

we don't live in Plato's Commonwealth, and when we can't have perfection we ought to comply with the measure that is least remote from it. — Bernard Bailyn

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. — Oscar Wilde

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity. — Northrop Frye

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone. — Henri Matisse

Buy American and helping sweatshop workers are conflicting goals. — Benjamin Powell

Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good. — Winston Churchill

I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it until it shone above the dark gum tree. I used to whisper 'There you are, my darling.' And just in that first moment it seemed to be shining for me alone. It seemed to understand this ... something which is like longing, and yet it is not longing. Or regret - it is more like regret. — Katherine Mansfield

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come. — Richard Llewellyn

He played the part of the devil too successfully. But he was not the devil. Au fond, he was a stupid man. And so - he died."
"Because he was stupid?"
"It is the sin that is never forgiven and always punished, madame. — Agatha Christie