Nar Anon 12 Steps Quotes & Sayings

Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else. — Alex Tabarrok

I can tell you I've crunched the numbers time and time again; it is always more fun to have eight people with one beer than one man with eight beers. — Nick Offerman

Not one of them [formulae] can be shown to have any existence, so that the formula of one of the simplest of organic bodies is confused by the introduction of unexplained symbols for imaginary differences in the mode of combination of its elements ... It would be just as reasonable to describe an oak tree as composed of blocks and chips and shavings to which it may be reduced by the hatchet, as by Dr Kolbe's formula to describe acetic acid as containing the products which may be obtained from it by destructive influences. A Kolbe botanist would say that half the chips are united with some of the blocks by the force parenthesis; the other half joined to this group in a different way, described by a buckle; shavings stuck on to these in a third manner, comma; and finally, a compound of shavings and blocks united together by a fourth force, juxtaposition, is joined to the main body by a fifth force, full stop. — Alexander William Williamson

The trouble with coins is, when one face is up, the other face is down. — Orson Scott Card

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom. — Laurence Sterne

What "I" could there be apart from life, apart from Being? It is utterly impossible. So there is no such thing as "my life," and I don't have a life. I am life. I and life are one. — Eckhart Tolle

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. — Vanessa Marano

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend. — Robert Charles Wilson

I'm not a library. — Sidney Poitier

I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, 'Gosh, do I want to be on a series?' — Wil Wheaton

Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise. — Judith Rodin

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion. — H.L. Mencken

When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters. — Cristina Saralegui