Khalil Gibran Beirut Quotes & Sayings

Cleverness as opposed to wisdom. Wanting and having instead of thinking and making. — David Foster Wallace

My contention is that especially young, recently trained engineers are in a position to recognize and to react on a presumptive anomaly: They are trained within the technological frame but have low enough inclusion to question the basic assumptions of that frame. — Wiebe E. Bijker

But he wouldna do it. John." He looked up then, and gave me a crooked smile. "He loved me, he said. And if I couldna give him that in return - and he kent I couldn't - then he'd not take counterfeit for true coin." He shook himself, hard, like a dog coming out of the water. "No. A man who would say such a thing is not one who'd bugger a child for the sake of his father's bonny blue eyes, I'll tell ye that for certain, Sassenach. — Diana Gabaldon

Most indie shoots, or any kind of film shooting, even TV, it's out of Los Angeles, unfortunately. I wish that would change, that people could work where their families are, across the board - crew, cast. I wish we could all stay here. — Jeanne Tripplehorn

Were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man's foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels ... — Ayn Rand

The way I see it ... " She smacked her lips together. "Is if you date a person in the morning, that gives you all day to play. — Rachel Van Dyken

Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? — Lao-Tzu

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk. — Joan Erickson

The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors. — Ada Yonath

We meditate so that our minds can be sharp and alert. We chant mantras so that your souls may be ignited like candles. We walk in the light of this beauty. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day. — Lisa Ling

Everyone is giving something. Everyone is giving what has their heart. What I'm giving you is what has my heart. — John De Ruiter

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life. — Albert Camus

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime. — Dalai Lama

Technology brings mankind closer to divinity or extinction. — Toba Beta