Kastens Bonne Quotes & Sayings

As children become increasingly less connected to adults, they rely more and more on each other; the whole natural order of things change. In the natural order of all mammalian cultures, animals or humans, the young stay under the wings of adults until they themselves reach adulthood. Immature creatures were never meant to bring one another to maturity. They were never meant to look to one another for primary nurturing, modelling, cue giving or mentoring. They are not equipped to give one another a sense of direction or values. As a result of today's shift to this peer orientation, we are seeing the increasing immaturity, alienation, violence and precocious sexualization of North American Youth. The disruption of family life, rapid economic and social changes to human culture and relationships, and the erosion of stable communities are at the core of this shift. — Gabor Mate

I didn't do anything spectacular when I won the Open in 2001. I hit the ball good, not great. I putted good, not great, but I think I missed maybe two putts inside eight feet all week. — David Duval

The main reason we were close and worked in the way we did was that it was a collaboration that was based on more than just the traditional view of design," Ive says. "We both perceived objects in our environment, and people, and organizational structures intuitively in the same way. Beauty can be conceptual, it can be symbolic, it can stand as testament to progress and what humankind has managed to achieve in the last fifteen years. In that sense, it could represent progress, or it could be something as trivial as the machined face on a screw. That's why we got on well, 'cause we both thought that way. If my contribution was simply to the shapes of things, we wouldn't have spent so much time together. It makes no sense that the CEO of a company this size would spend nearly every lunchtime and big chunks of the afternoon with somebody who just was preoccupied with form. — Brent Schlender

And Halyard suddenly realized that, just as religion and government had been split into disparate entities centuries before, now, thanks to the machines, politics and government lived side by side, but touched almost nowhere. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I started to think about how words and stories are time beings, too, — Ruth Ozeki

Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps. — Paulo Coelho

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say. — Flannery O'Connor

Can we all agree that the sexiest thing in the world is a nice ass in a jockstrap? Is there anything better in creation? I think not. — Nick Pageant

They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE! — Stephanie Perkins

Ignorance and evil-an ugly alliance. — Tom Angleberger

Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts. — Anton Julius Carlson

His fiddle weeps, she thought, yet it wooed her with its sweetness, warm as a lover's touch. — Laura Frantz

I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion. — Oliver

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war. — Joseph A. Schumpeter