Pafe 97 Quotes & Sayings

People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there's a cure for this and an exception we've made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, I'm sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. That's why [religion] survives. — Christopher Hitchens

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly. — Samuel Johnson

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself. — Samuel Johnson

What we call the past is built on bits. - John Archibald Wheeler — James Gleick

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure. — Valentino Rossi

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. — Edward R. Murrow

All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body, — Charles James

Christ's love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are. — Pope Francis

It is so wearisome having to represent things. That is why I refuse to look at abstract art. It is much too suggestive of the style of my thoughts, and I never think about my thoughts. — Bauvard

In fact, like other personality traits, personal happiness appears to be strongly influenced by our genes. Studies of identical and fraternal twins show that identical twins are significantly more likely to exhibit the same level of happiness than are fraternal twins or other siblings. Behavior geneticists have used these studies to estimate just how much genes matter, and their best guess is that long-term happiness depends 50 percent on a person's genetic set point, 10 percent on their circumstances (e.g., where they live, how rich they are, how healthy they are), and 40 percent on what they choose to think and do.31 — Nicholas A. Christakis

I learned a long, long time ago, that I could accomplish things in this place we call reality and yet still spend most of my time in the better reality of my mind. — Kevin Walker

Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind. — Matthew Bonifacio