Pauletic Robert Quotes & Sayings

Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it, they may have traveled to it, they appreciate artifacts and medical help from it, but they live their daily lives much as hundreds of generations of ancestors before them, without money, electricity, phones, TV or manufactured food. — Andrew Rayner

To spoil means to put no limit on caprice, to give one the impression that everything is permitted to him and that he has no obligations. The young child exposed to this regime has no experience of its own limits. By reason of the removal of all external restraint, all clashing with other things, he comes actually to believe that he is the only one that exists, and gets used to not considering others, especially not considering them as superior to himself. This feeling of another's superiority could only be instilled into him by someone who, being stronger than he is, should force him to give up some desire, to restrict himself, to restrain himself. He would then have learned this fundamental discipline: "Here I end and here begins another more powerful than I am. In the world, apparently, there are two people: I myself and another superior to me. — Ortega Y Gasset

Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven? — Carsten Jensen

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require. — Samuel Wilson

Whoever might perfume a scorpion
Will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband — Idries Shah

When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others. — Timothy Keller

Life is a balance of conversation, coersion, and cooperation! — Garrett McCoy

It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the words, and perhaps the courage to speak with unlocked hearts, that we don't know at all that it is the same with others. — Sheldon Vanauken

Off, pff keep this fucking shit stuff for you, I don't give shit about them. — Deyth Banger

what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

To a police officer, a sawed off shotgun is the ultimate nightmare. You can blow someone in half! — Steven Seagal

The truth of who you are and what you believe is projected in your behavior. Everything else, either positive or negative, is a mix of stories, lies, delusions, and manipulations. — Steve Maraboli

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat. — Elizabeth Banks