Picture Being Whipped Quotes & Sayings

STRONGLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE POSITION, THAT THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE IS NOT A RAILWAY — Charles Dickens

Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that augments or mediates the real world, they can be that much more disturbing. — Steve Mann

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it's futile to continue playing (conceptualizing). — Bill Gaede

It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I? — Christopher Moore

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Household was making loans at a faster pace than ever. A big source of its growth had been the second mortgage. The document offered a fifteen-year, fixed-rate loan, but it was bizarrely disguised as a thirty-year loan. It took the stream of payments the homeowner would make to Household over fifteen years, spread it hypothetically over thirty years, and asked: If you were making the same dollar payments over thirty years that you are in fact making over fifteen, what would your "effective rate" of interest be? It was a weird, dishonest sales pitch. The borrower was told he had an "effective interest rate of 7 percent" when he was in fact paying something like 12.5 percent. "It was blatant fraud," said Eisman. "They were tricking their customers. — Michael Lewis

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors. — Kyrsten Sinema

There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence. — Christopher Pike

Authentic faith is lived wisdom, exact cognition, direct experience. — Samael Aun Weor

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I despise the morning ... I am a creature of darkness, whose elements is night and shadow.I belong in the dark with the other sinful creatures. — Charlotte Featherstone

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease. — Michael K. Simpson

I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them. — Julianne Moore

If there were no risk of a punishment, a getaway would lose the pleasure. — Kobo Abe

In the near term, such compromises made possible a continental union of North and South that provided bountiful benefits to freeborn Americans. But in the long run, the Founders' failure to put slavery on a path of ultimate extinction would lead to massive military conflict on American soil - the very sort of conflict whose avoidance was, as we shall now see, literally the primary purpose of the Constitution of 1788. — Akhil Reed Amar