Jenckes Civil Service Quotes & Sayings

The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetic I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature. — William Petty

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life. — Donald Miller

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable. — Helen Caldicott

The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it. — Mary Blakely

If you want to program conservatively, you need to live with the labels. Be proud and stand up for your beliefs! — Steve Yegge

Strive to discover the mystery
before life is taken from you.
If while living you fail to find yourself,
to know yourself,
how will you be able to understand
the secret of your existence
after you die? — Farid Al-Din Attar

...then tossed the coat into the water. "Hurst! That's a perfectly good coat!"
"Yes, and I have a perfectly good life. One of those two things is not replaceable. — Karen Hawkins

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life. — Angie Everhart

You don't seriously believe everybody on the planet should do whatever they want, do you? That would be terrible. These people need help and guidance. — Michael Crichton

Carnivalization is not an external and immobile schema which is imposed upon ready-made content; it is, rather, an extraordinarily flexible form of artistic visualization, a peculiar sort of heuristic principle making possible the discovery of new and as yet unseen things. By relativizing all that was externally stable, set and ready-made, carnivalization with its pathos of change and renewal permitted Dostoevsky to penetrate into the deepest layers of man and human relationships. — Mikhail Bakhtin

I was a drummer and I played the guitar. — Jam Master Jay

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week. — Cynthia Payne