Montagnes Ditalie Quotes & Sayings

I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium or confusion; I have set forth dull, null and even thoroughly discouraged. But I never came back in such a frame of mind, and I never met a human being whose humor was not the better for a walk. — Donald C. Peattie

Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here. — Stephen Levine

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future. — Aisha Tyler

Make a way, find a way or get out of the way. — Ted Turner

I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to tell people what fraction of their incomes they should devote to providing for their own or someone else's old age. — Milton Friedman

If we get our very identity, our sense of worth, from our political position, then politics is not really about, it is about US. Through our cause we are getting a self, our worth. That means we MUST despise and demonize the opposition. If we get our identity from our ethnicity or socioeconomic status, then we HAVE to feel superior to those of other classes and races. If you are profoundly proud of being an open-minded, tolerant soul, you will be extremely indignant toward people you think are bigots. If you are a very moral person, you will feel superior to people you think are licentious. And so on. — Timothy Keller

It's not something you can prove ... I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't. — Charles De Lint

A problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act. — Elizabeth Janeway

Years later my Popo would laugh and tell people that if she hadn't knocked him out in the first round, he'd still be wandering around in love with the stars. — Isabel Allende

Moralism beats this drum: If I improve, then I'll be accepted - by God, by others, even by myself. But the gospel says something radically different. The gospel announces that everyone "in Christ" is already accepted by God because of Jesus's work for them. Therefore, no improvement, good behavior, or performance is necessary in order to experience the deep acceptance we long for and in fact strive for on a daily basis. — Tullian Tchividjian