Pestanejar Quotes & Sayings

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation? — Robert Kennedy

Evil is maybe lying to God.
Or better, lying to love. — Anne Sexton

the girl somewhere,
who reads you,
whose skin has memorized your life.
Nothing stops her fingers;
they swim with you at night. — Larissa Szporluk

It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out of their historical contexts. To do so is to run the risk of turning them into monsters, whom we can denounce for our (frequently political) motives - an insidious game, because we are condemning in their make-up that which is likely to belong to a whole social world, the world that helped to fashion them and that is deviously reflected or distorted in them. Censure of this sort is the work of petty moralists and propagandists, not historians (p. 5). — Lauro Martines

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art. — Eudora Welty

My film is actually very critical of the level of French we're using back home. To have an immigrant from an ancient French colony come and do that is a little critical of our education system back home. Balzac is definitely over their heads. It's meant to be funny also because it would be also probably too much for kids in France, but kids in France would know who Balzac is. But, back home at that age, I guarantee you they don't know who he is. — Philippe Falardeau

It was approaching night, the conversation having taken up the better part of a day. Out of the fragile light a fourth perezoso spoke, the olders and wisest of them, who had to descend to the forest floor on business no more than once every two or three weeks, but then required many hours to accomplish what was necessary. He said, "The truth is this. Dropped casually from the safety of our beloved branches, our shit would be merely shit. Hard and shapely as our patient nature makes it, it is still shit. But when we plant it in the ground where the jaguar walks, it becomes precious as jewels. — Lon Otto

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. — Paul Nurse

I have long ago accepted that I am a little crazy and a little weird. It wasn't that exciting a revelation though. Turns out everyone is. — Daniel Pearce

My name is Lithuanian. My father was born there, and he gave me a cool name. It's the Lithuanian national flower - looks like a weed, a little bit like me! - although in Spanish it means a 'route' or 'road,' and in Swedish it means 'square'. So, not quite so cool in those countries. — Ruta Gedmintas

A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions. — John C. Maxwell

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked. — Richard Dawkins

Then he smiled, and his face looked for a moment — Bruce Olson

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much. — Charles Darwin

Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry. — Sally Kirkland