Kardanka Quotes & Sayings

Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that. — Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Just real. I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. And more importantly, I want to have the freedom to bring everyone else along with me. — Paul Walker

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness. — Thomas A Kempis

I like not being dead. Anything beyond that is just icing on the cake.My undead cake of livingness. — Jhonen Vasquez

I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves. — Harold Simmons

My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks. — Rainbow Rowell

Marriage was like death. You knew it'd happen eventually, but it wasn't something you dwelt on. — T. Kingfisher

When devils do the worst sins, they first put on the pretense of goodness and innocence, as I am doing now. — William Shakespeare

In fact, how you allocate your own resources can make your life turn out to be exactly as you hope or very different from what you intend. — Clayton M Christensen

Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mind emerges from matter and life at an empirical level, but at a transcendental level every form or structure is necessarily also a form or structure disclosed by consciousness. With this reversal one passes from the natural attitude of the scientist to the transcendental phenomenological attitude (which, according to phenomenology, is the properly philosophical attitude). — Evan Thompson

The chief difference between the believer and the unbeliever is forgiveness. The only thing that qualifies a person to be a minister in the name of Christ is that that person has experienced forgiveness and wants to tell of it to others. — R.C. Sproul

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that. — William Kingdon Clifford