Peter Chung Quotes & Sayings

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean. — Isaac Newton

There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries. — Frances Wright

You have to constantly redefine who you are. — M.I.A.

I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances. — Isabella L. Bird

Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick to avoid spiritual surgery. We can forget because we have been healed. But even if it is easier to forget after we forgive, we should not make forgetting a test of our forgiving. The test of forgiving lies with healing the lingering pain of the past, not with forgetting the past has ever happened. — Lewis B. Smedes

Everest silences you ... when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue. — Salman Rushdie

We offend God because we do not know His greatness. — Benedict Joseph Labre

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s. — Ruth J. Simmons

The source of the ego is God. — Ramana Maharshi

Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you. — Barton Gellman