Nordies Quotes & Sayings

So often we focus on finding answers to life's mysteries ...
when in reality, a wiser approach is to start asking better questions, and more of them. — Dana Gore

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. — Benjamin Disraeli

For if humanity has a future on this planet of a hundred million years, it is unthinkable that it should spend those aeons in a ferment of national self-satisfaction and chauvinistic idiocies. — William Golding

Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there. — Carnie Wilson

The mason stirs.
Words!
Pens are too light.
Take a chisel to write. — Basil Bunting

If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not understand it and that you will always be disappointed, for in the bucket the water does not run. To "have" running water you must let go of it and let it run. The same is true of life and of God. The — Alan W. Watts

if you really want it, you'll keep at it. Despite setbacks, interruptions, and sidetracks. No matter how long you get off course, you'll eventually return - if you really want what you say you do. — M.J. Ryan

Stop trying to change things that can't be changed. — Brigitta Moon

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them. — David Christian

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. — Thomas Jefferson

If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment - you need visuals that represent that. — Ryan Potter