Plebada Alterada Quotes & Sayings

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness. — Chris Prentiss

It's funny. Every CIA agent you ask, 'Are you CIA?' says, 'No. Not CIA,'" he said as he walked toward me. "It makes you wonder if there are actually any CIA agents at all. — S.L. Shelton

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. — Leo Buscaglia

Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming ... clouds of educated gnat-notes. — Frank Zappa

You never see a smiling runner. — George Carlin

Accepted - and treasured." "Treasured?" "Our men - our fathers, our brothers, and our husbands protect and care for us." "And that is shown by hiding you under this shawl?" "It's not hiding us, Leah. The shawl, this head covering, is a declaration before man and God. His divine Law proclaims women to be of great worth and orders that they be protected. First through their father, then their husband. If the husband dies, then women are protected through next of kin. And if there are no next of kin, the community. If this is not fulfilled, Leah, it is not the fault of God's Law, it is the fault of those to whom his Law was given. — Janette Oke

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. — Jacques Monod

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. — George Bernard Shaw

I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade. — Lupe Fiasco

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong. — Peter Welch

Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle! — Sanya Richards-Ross

This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work ... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people. — Peter Drucker