Midair Community Quotes & Sayings

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it. — Alan Watts

Church has believed that parents probably wont' assume responsibility for their own children's growth, so they have tried to become a parent substitute. This in turn ha s fostered parents to adopt a "drop-off" mentality. Maybe the greatest gift a church can give parents is the confidence and courage to do what God has wired them to do. — Reggie Joiner

When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor. I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior and I haven't moved one step forward since. — Seth Rogen

We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid. — Gary Johnson

You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in. — Robert Barry

Things end. Everything ends. But for a few days in a city full of hunger, and avarice, and alienation - in this fucked-up mess of a life spent wandering in the dark without a hand to hold on to - I was not alone. And neither were you. — Julio Alexi Genao

We should take the sheer improbability of our own existence as a kick in the butt to get out of bed in the morning. If you hear this fact as discouraging - that you're only one in billions - then flip the script. You are one in billions! Someone has to succeed, so it might as well be you. — Sophia Amoruso

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard. — Frank Sinatra

Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested — Peter Lynch

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. — Temple Grandin

Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes. — Daniel D. Palmer

Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

Thus, relativism removes one of our most powerful motives to study the views of the other-the idea that the other might be right and we might be wrong. — David Detmer

What to do with life? Get out of bed, Derek. That's what you do. You get out of bed, and you get yourself a cup of fucking coffee. That's all you can do. — Allie Burke

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you. — Aldo Leopold