Lourens Willekes Quotes & Sayings

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship. — Mas Oyama

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork. — Sam Ewing

We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating. Feeling that there must be more behind, we return to our starting point in human consciousness - the one centre where more might become known. There we find other stirrings, other revelations than those conditioned by the world of symbols ... Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism. Surely then that mental and spiritual nature of ourselves, known in our minds by an intimate contact transcending the methods of physics, supplies just that ... which science is admittedly unable to give. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

It's a sad commentary on where politics is today. If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal. — James R. Leininger

Feeling weightless ... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable ... and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you've been born again. — Wally Schirra

Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.
-Albus Dumbledore — J.K. Rowling

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence. — Adam Arkin

You have to do well on third downs. — Joe Buck