Moyennant Quoi Quotes & Sayings

There are two types of codes, ciphers, and true codes. In the first, letters, or symbols that stand for letters, are shuffled and juggled according to a pattern. In the second, letters, words, or groups of words are replaced by other letters, symbols, or words. A code can be one type or the other, or a combination. But both have this in common: once you find the key, you just plug it in and out come logical sentences. A language, however, has its own internal logic, its own grammar, its own way of putting thoughts together with words that span various spectra of meaning. There is no key you can plug in to unlock the exact meaning. At best you can get a close approximation. — Samuel R. Delany

Do not create opportunities for beasts and evils to take charge of your life. — Sean F. Hogan

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is. — Nadine Gordimer

If you don't have a challenge, find one, — George Sheehan

In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities. — Charles Manson

After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.' — Mohamed El-Erian

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities. — Allan Bloom

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance. — Friedrich Nietzsche