Kraig Ton Quotes & Sayings

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders. — Ron Fournier

But life is not a fairy tale. It's brighter and darker, longer and briefer, duller and more magical. It's full of contradictions, but one thing it's not is neat. — Kirsty Logan

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. — E. O. Wilson

George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society. — Matthew Stewart

The advanced interstellar culture operates on a barter system. Never saw that one coming. — John Sandford

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself. — Joel Osteen

There's a long history of resistance movements igniting in the soccer stadium. In the Red Star Revolution, Draza, Krle, and the other Belgrade soccer hooligans helped topple Slobodan Milosevic. Celebrations for Romania's 1990 WOrld Cup qualification carried over into the Bucharest squares, culminating in a firing squad that trained its rifles on the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife. The movement that toppled the Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner had the same sportive ground zero. — Franklin Foer

I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees. — Audre Lorde

It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside. — Kevin A. Ford

A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time. — Neneh Cherry

Ayyan had developed the habit of reading anything in front of him, even if it was something he did not really understand, because he believed that one reason why everybody was here, including the sons of municipal sweepers, was to collect as much information as possible before dying with a funny look on the face. — Manu Joseph

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other. — Andre Gide

But if all maximizing models are really arguing is that "people will always seek to maximize something," then they obviously can't predict anything, which means employing them can hardly be said to make anthropology more scientific. All they really add to analysis is a set of assumptions about human nature. The assumption, most of all, that no one ever does anything primarily out of concern for others; that whatever one does, one is only trying to get something out of it for oneself. In common English, there is a word for this attitude. It's called "cynicism." Most of us try to avoid people who take it too much to heart. In economics, apparently, they call it "science. — David Graeber

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles. — Martin Luther

Note, It is common for those that are indulgent to their own sin to be severe against the sins of others. — Matthew Henry