Kvakica Quotes & Sayings

Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good. — P. J. O'Rourke

Like insects on a rubber sheet, we live in a universe whose true form is hidden from direct view. — Lawrence M. Krauss

Humans seldom have created anything of lasting value unless they were tired or hurting. — Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

She could live without her past. She was better off without her past. But Ian couldn't live without his heart. — Dana Marton

It is indeed possible to be widely read, as I am, and still have black holes in one's knowledge. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. — Lester B. Pearson

I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about. — P. J. O'Rourke

One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask. — Richard L. Evans

Screams and laughter simultaneously rent the air. Women were being physically harassed by the soldiers who had just killed their husbands, fathers and brothers. After the battle, men would win but the women always lost. — Sandeep Sharma

Strangely enough, without names they were still things. He could see them and think about them in terms of shapes, or numbers. Formula of description. Various combinations of conic sections and the six surfaces of revolution symmetrical around an axis, the plane, the sphere, the cylinder, the catenoid, the unduloid, and the nodoid; shapes without the names, but the shapes alone were like names. Spatializing language. — Kim Stanley Robinson

It would have been absurd in the Evangelist to say that the Speech was always with God, if he had not some kind of subsistence peculiar to himself in God. This passage serves, therefore, to refute the error of Sabellius; for it shows that the Son is distinct from the Father. — John Calvin

You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that. — William Friedkin

Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people. — Bryant H. McGill

Their bodies were different as were the color of their eyes, the length of their noses and the circumstances of their existence, but something inside them meant the same thing, wanted the same release, would have left the same impression on the memory of an onlooker. — Sherwood Anderson

Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy — Albert Einstein