Markussen Islands Quotes & Sayings

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which. — James A. Owen

Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent. — Annie Besant

The psychopath [or sociopath] makes a mockery not only of the truth but also of all authority and institutions. - Arnold Buss, M.D." Psychopathology — Jack Olsen

I welcome questions. I hate assumptions. — Red Haircrow

Why, Hurst couldn't have hit the side of Westminster Abbey with a pistol, even by throwing the silly thing. — Patricia Cabot

I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis. — Minnie Pearl

Look at it another way. A stack of five hundred sheets of paper is two to three inches high. How high would the stack be if it had 6 x 1023 sheets? That stack would reach from the earth to the sun, not once, but more than one million times.2 Yet, in about two gulps of water, God has packed that many molecules. The miracle of walking on water is small for Him who created it in the first place. The multiplication of bread was but a simple command for Him when the very earth was brought forth at His command. (C. S. Lewis commented that a slow miracle is no easier to perform than an instant one.) The skeptic, of course, will challenge such credulity that accepts wholesale such stories, not realizing that what they swallow in a glass of water is a miracle in and of itself! The — Ravi Zacharias

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path — Abdu'l- Baha

Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you've got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the hell better than the other, you do not have to spend much time with the other. And that's the way we filter out buying opportunities. — Charlie Munger

When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Dark feelings can become a habit. And if they're strong enough, like many strong feelings, they can even be enjoyable. — Deirdre Madden

People only watch six to eight to 10 channels, so if you want to be one of those channels, then you have to create content so strong that people have to come not once, not twice but enough that, behaviorally, they start to feel like, 'That's my channel.' — David Zaslav

Trust in God and destroy fear, which paralyzes all efforts to succeed and attracts the very thing you fear. — Paramahansa Yogananda

It was time to let my freak flag fly. — Derrolyn Anderson