Paralelogramos Quotes & Sayings

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey. — Chaim Weizmann

In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom. — Rene Dubos

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals. — Samuel Johnson

I like the late Bernard Haldane's definition of an achievement. He says it is: something you yourself feel you have done well, that you also enjoyed doing and felt proud of. In other words you are looking for an accomplishment that gave you two pleasures: enjoyment while doing it, and satisfaction from the outcome. That doesn't mean you may not have sweated as you did it, or hated some parts of the process, but it does mean that basically you enjoyed most of the process. The pleasure was not simply in the outcome, but along the way as well. — Richard N. Bolles

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it. — Douglas Crockford

Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I thought to myself, How sad to have to earn your living like that, by pretending to like everyone until you forget what it really feels like genuinely to enjoy someone's company as a friend, not just as a potential customer. Contrived emotion (What am I supposed to feel now?) replaces genuine emotion (How do I really feel about this person?) until the ability to know what you are really feeling disappears. — Harold S. Kushner

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea. — Adam Johnson

The Redskins have been active champions in the fight against childhood obesity through our commitment with the NFL Play 60 program. — Daniel Snyder

Veiled melancholy has her sovereign shrine — Stephanie Danler

I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success. — Todd McFarlane

The middle was where it was too easy to be lazy and cynical at the same time. — A. Lee Martinez

Thanks to evolution, half of all Americans don't believe in evolution. — Thomas Hayden