Plabanos Quotes & Sayings

Whenever an observation is made that rules out some possible worlds, we remove the sand from the corresponding areas of the paper and redistribute it evenly over the areas that remain in play. Thus, the total amount of sand on the sheet never changes, it just gets concentrated into fewer areas as observational evidence accumulates. This is a picture of learning in its purest form. (To — Nick Bostrom

Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility ... and watch what happens. — Mark Hart

The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now. — Larry Rosenberg

If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one? — Tertullian

Year's end still in straw hat and sandals — Matsuo Basho

I watch television all the time, mostly PBS and old movies like 'The Quiet Man,' my favorite Wayne movie. It's marvelous. I just loved the man and still do. — James Arness

I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln ... are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be. — Theodore Roosevelt

One never knows how loyalty is born. — Robert Morse

If you weren't on Chris Economaki's radar screen, you probably weren't on anybody's. — Mario Andretti

Allow me to take a moment to express my appreciation for Cletus Winston and his entrances. — Penny Reid

A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. — Geoffrey Norman

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They may all collapse altogether. — George Santayana