Mekatronika Quotes & Sayings

How does a poor country defeat rich ones?" "Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it." "Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows?" "But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel." "Currency!" "Indeed. — Neal Stephenson

I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. — J. D. Souther

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldn't like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector. — Kurt Busiek

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself. — Christina Ricci

Or I can forgive and forget ... Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things ... we always have a choice. — M.L. Stedman

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bank being big. In fact, there are some good arguments about universality of geography that in theory, if you have all your eggs in one little community, and some big employer goes out, that could be your downfall. — Wilbur Ross

We're all so multifaceted, and it's impossible to see all the sides at once. — Na

I learned the hard way that not only do you not have to be superwoman, but it's better not to be and not to try to be. What I would like to be is just a good person - someone who tries her best and puts her best foot forward. — Cindy McCain

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience. — Thomas A. Edison

If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best. — Marilyn Monroe

Maybe you should stay. You've found where you belong. Most people never get that lucky their whole lives. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Toward whatsoever we regard as perfect, undoubtedly, it is no less our duty than it is our nature to press forward; this is the generous enthusiasm which accomplishes not indeed the consummation after which it aspires, but one which approaches it in a degree far nearer than if the whole powers had not been developed by a delusion. It is in politics rather than in religion that faith is meritorious. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no life higher than the grasstops — Sylvia Plath

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature. That the trees are high and the grasses short is a mere accident of our own foot-rules and our own stature. But to the spirit which has stripped off for a moment its own idle temporal standards the grass is an everlasting forest, with dragons for denizens; the stones of the road are as incredible mountains piled one upon the other; the dandelions are like gigantic bonfires illuminating the lands around; and the heath-bells on their stalks are like planets hung in heaven each higher than the other. — G.K. Chesterton

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is. — Idries Shah