Openstax Books Quotes & Sayings

Jeremiah 1:12 (AMP) says: "Then said the Lord to me, You have seen well, for I am alert and active, watching over My word to perform it. — Aly Taylor

The category of Other is as original as consciousness itself. The duality between Self and Other can be found in the most primitive societies, in the most ancient mythologies; the division did not always fall into the category of the division of the sexes ( ... ) No group ever defines itself as One without immediately setting up the Other opposite itself. It only takes three travelers brought together by chance in the same train compartment for the rest of the travellers to become vaguely hostile 'others'. Village people view anyone not belonging to the village as suspicious 'others'. For the native of a country, inhabitants of other countries are viewed as 'foreigners'; Jews are the 'others' for anti-Semites, blacks for racist Americans, indigenous people for colonists, proletarians for the propertied classes. — Simone De Beauvoir

I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules. — Rick Smolan

I swallowed, feeling something inside me respond, a rush of warmth spreading through my veins. My own dragon, calling to Riley's, like he was her other half. — Julie Kagawa

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water. — Jan Hammer

Life is an opportunity to bloom the flowers of love. — Amit Ray

Natural selection is not evolution. — Ronald Fisher

All power is in essence power to deny mortality. — Ernest Becker

I choose questions to work on according to how much they excite me. — Eric Maskin

I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender — Jackson Browne

I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this [shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol], but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back. — Michael Caine

Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words. — G.I. Gurdjieff

For, know that each soul constantly meets its own self. No problem may be run away from. Meet it now! — Edgar Cayce

Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too. — Gayle Forman

I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too. — Dita Von Teese