Mesas De Jantar Quotes & Sayings

At first, one only recognizes particular instances to be worth of critique; critique appears synonymous with rejection, implying deficiency in the object. Over time, one discovers that everything warrants critique. This can produce cynicism: nothing is above reproach, nothing is pure, therefore nothing has value. But followed through to its logical conclusion, this insight inspires a profound optimism: if everything can be critiqued, then no matter how bleak things are, there is always a way to improve them. Those who comprehend this can pass beyond the binary of approval and disapproval to identify the conflicting currents within any subject of inquiry. There are sides to take inside every position, as well as between them. — CrimethInc.

I have a troubled relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, not just because he kicked me out of a bar but also because it's become clear to me that he was not a good person. — Andy Daly

No one really cares until something dramatic happens. — Unknown

Call up and say you were killed. Let go of that damn glass. — J.D. Salinger

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist ... — Ernest Gellner

Good content should be at the heart of your strategy, but it is equally important to keep the display context of that content in mind as well. — Tim Frick

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. — Marcel Proust

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable. — Lupita Nyong'o

Playground of Dreams supports kids in discovering and achieving their own magnificence, that unique quality that only they have, fostering it, watering it, and watching it sprout! — Dash Mihok

Music is not just the black dots on the white paper --
it's what happens when those black dots go into your heart, and come out again. — Phil Smith

I need a goal. I need an objective. I need a challenge. I need a purpose. I need to contribute. I need to do something. — Cecelia Ahern

Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that! — Stephen Hawking

Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box. — Barbara Corcoran

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care. — Kent Conrad

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. — George Bernard Shaw