Kaleyediscope Quotes & Sayings

The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven. — F. R. Scott

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind. — Rick Warren

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said — Richard Brautigan

I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans. — Jeff Henderson

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation. — Giancarlo Esposito

I always felt big and unattractive. — Sheri L. Dew

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid. — Jose Arguelles

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion. — Voltaire

Burke's admonition
"The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: We ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations"
never seems to have occurred to Hayek. The Arnoldian ideal of the disinterested intellectual willing to criticize one side and then the other in order to create balance and counteract the one-sidedness that led toward fanaticism: That, too, was as alien to Hayek as it had been to Marcuse. If it was partisanship that led Hayek to push forward intellectually to new insights, it was also partisanship that kept him from a balanced and rounded philosophy.
Perhaps a familiarity with "the best that has been thought and said" about the market will aid us in obtaining a more disinterested and informed perspective. Such a perspective might well begin with Hayek's insights. But it would by no means end with them. p. 387 — Jerry Z. Muller

Working for Spider was difficult. He was reasonable, but only when circumstances permitted; understanding of difficulties, yet completely unaffected by them. And he expected impossible things in an impossible timeframe. — Ilona Andrews

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men. — Bernard Kouchner

When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't separate children's contact with the adult world today. — Michael Morpurgo

India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.' — Neel Mukherjee