Lahti Pistol Quotes & Sayings

Individuals of one species are the same in essence or substance. Two human beings differ from one another in matter, but are the same in essence, as being both rational animals. The essential human quality which distinguishes the species Man from all other species is identical in both. — Aldous Huxley

Miser Shen is preparing to spend the night with a goat. — Barry Hughart

But passion and pride rarely occupy the same space. — Jennie Fields

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he's not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind? — Alan Moore

My best office is my bed. — Philippe Starck

We're all busy people and it's easy to get so wrapped up in life, that we forget to live. — Jillian Dodd

Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society. — James Gleick

There is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. — Jean Cocteau

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. — Robert Half

The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories. — Tom Dempsey

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life. — Bruno Walter

Everything seemed to have succumbed, to have sunk to sleep, under the great, golden, tender, midsummer moon. The splendor of it seemed to transcend human life and human fate. The senses were too feeble to take it in, and every time one looked up at the sky one felt unequal to it, as if one were sitting deaf under the waves of a great river of melody. — Willa Cather

In proposing a solution to the problem of the individual and the community, Marx was contributing to a tradition in moral philosophy going back at least to Plato. Plato had argued that personal happiness is to be found in virtuous conduct and in serving one's community. He thus found harmony between the individual's interest in happiness and the needs of the community. But Plato's arguments did not convince later philosophers. — Anonymous

He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that's what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up. — Angie Thomas