Muinasmaakondade Quotes & Sayings

Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but failed to realize that eventually the craziness would take on a life of its own, and that the monster they created would turn on its creators as well as the little people. — Paul Krugman

Faith is RECEIVED by HEARING, is ACTIVATED by SPEAKING, and is DEMONSTRATED by DOING! — Robert G. Paul

But damn it, give me my tacos. — Jordan Dane

I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes that he would be looking for in a woman. I would replace compatibility with dialectic. — James Ellroy

What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. Next question. — Michael Crichton

The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films. — Madhuri Dixit

We have created a society in which the rich become richer and the poor become poorer, and in which we are so caught up in our own immediate problems that we cannot afford to be aware of what is going on with the rest of the human family or our planet Earth. In my mind I see a group of chickens in a cage disputing over a few seeds of grain, unaware that in a few hours they will all be killed. — Thich Nhat Hanh

At this time to refuse or neglect to give coffee to their wives was a legitimate cause for divorce among the Turks." William H. Ukers (1873-1945). — Stewart Lee Allen

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

There are few things I hate more than feeling weak. Needing help or failing top the list. The worst, however, is knowing that all three just happened. — Christine Fonseca

Common thistle is everywhere," she said. "Which is perhaps why human beings are so relentlessly unkind to one another. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one. — Trevor Rabin

This means nothing less than that he will be forced to be free. Once more a humanistic utopianism ends in tyranny, whether in Rousseau's writing or in the Reign of Terror which carried his position to its conclusion. Robespierre, — Francis A. Schaeffer