Pal C Telek Quotes & Sayings

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it. — Branch Rickey

Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death. — Juvenal

All because I wanted a hug. Jeez, what kind of attention-starved female am I? — Pippa DaCosta

When the habit of seeing things as they are turns into a mania, we lament the madman we have been and are no longer. — Emil Cioran

My dad was a different person when he lectured: his eyes sparkled, his lips turned upward ... 'Think what it must have been like for Darwin, two hundred years ago. He took that voyage on the Beagle [1831] expecting to document the natural world and he stumbled across something impossible. A creature who could defy the laws of physics
straight out of the pages of mythology ... In that one moment, the entire landscape of scientific investigation was drastically and irrevocably changed. The impossible became a widespread scientific reality, as omnipresent as gravity and in some cases, nearly as hard to see. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers. — Charles M. Schwab

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas. — Billy Bob Thornton

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such ideas will erode unless renewed by dramatic teaching or new oppressions. This is the most basic key to my life. — Frank Herbert

Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that, poets didn't give public readings very often, certainly not - there was no circuit of schools. — Billy Collins

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.' — J. Michael Straczynski

An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions. — Robert Orben

When you meet a new day, take a deep breath and tell yourself, ' I am new in this day'. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been the sort of God that we need to explain the origin of the universe, because it cannot have been there that early. — Richard Dawkins