Minderman Shaft Quotes & Sayings

Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs. — Melody Beattie

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names. — Joseph Priestley

The sooner the US puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation of clean energy jobs here in America ... — Carol Browner

Indeed, all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized a love ethic. — Bell Hooks

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. — Ferdinand De Saussure

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on. — Anne Lamott

I have the freedom to do what I want ... bright people to talk to every day. — Freeman Dyson

The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival. — Leo Buscaglia

Oh! I cannot now express what then I saw and felt of the steadiness of Jesus Christ, the rock of man's salvation: What was done, could not be undone, added to, nor altered. I saw, indeed, that sin might drive the soul beyond Christ, even the sin which is unpardonable; but woe to him that was so driven, for the word would shut him out. — John Bunyan

Alas, Experience! No other mentor has so wasted and frozen a face as yours, none wears a robe so black, none bears a rod so heavy, none with hand so inexorable draws the novice so sternly to his task, and forces him with authority so resistless to its acquirement. It is by your instructions alone that man or woman can ever find a safe track through life's wilds; without it, how they stumble, how they stray! On what forbidden grounds do they intrude, down what dread declivities are they hurled! — Charlotte Bronte

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects. — Charles Caleb Colton

Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then. — David Letterman

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics, — Fernando Torres