Pecasdez Quotes & Sayings

But our tendency to give scarcity more attention than abundance has caused us to ignore the many examples of abundance that have arisen in our own lifetime, like corn, for starters. The problem is that once something becomes abundant, we tend to ignore it, — Chris Anderson

In fiction, especially in texts that are framed by a storytelling situation, aporia is a favourite device of narrators to arouse curiosity in their audience, or to emphasize the extraordinary nature of the story they are telling. It is often combined with another figure of rhetoric, "aposiopesis", the incomplete sentence or unfinished utterance, usually indicated on the page by a trail of dots ... — David Lodge

You're here. You're real. Embrace that person you were, and make sure you have reason to like the person you're becoming. The past you can't change. The future is what matters. — David Walton

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions. — Bertrand Russell

Two grande lattes, double espresso, Italian blend," he said to the clerk. "Light on the froth, extra cinnamon. Use whole milk. Not two percent or half-and-half. Put a shot of raspberry in one for my itchy witch here. — Kim Harrison

The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt. — Antonin Scalia

What is the verdict of the vastest mind?
Silence: the book of fate is closed to us.
Man is a stranger to his own research;
He knows not whence he comes, nor whither goes.
Tormented atoms in a bed of mud,
Devoured by death, a mockery of fate.
But thinking atoms, whose far-seeing eyes,
Guided by thought, have measured the faint stars,
Our being mingles with the infinite;
Ourselves we never see, or come to know. — Voltaire

Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely. — Robert E. Murray