Podges Quotes & Sayings

Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any harm. If they do not exist, or if they have no care for humankind, then what is life to me in a world devoid of gods, or devoid of providence? But they do exist, and they do care for humankind: and they have put it absolutely in man's power to avoid falling into the true kinds of harm. — Marcus Aurelius

It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. — Terry Goodkind

The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season's over. — Richard Sherman

The world around him had gone brown. Brown grass and gray skies. No green. No blue. No life. — Hugh Howey

Realize that the Silence offers an ever available and almost unlimited opportunity for awakening the highest conception of Truth. Try to comprehend that Omnipotence itself is absolute silence; all else is change, activity, limitation. Silent thought concentration is therefore the true method of reaching, awakening and then expressing the wonderful potential power of the world within. — Charles F. Haanel

Every child should be taught how to think, read and write. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm trying to make it a little bit more personal this time. All my shows are hodge-podges, and this one is no exception but this one delves a little more deeper into my life and my world. Hopefully it's funny. I did a version of this at Birdland last January and it's similar-ish to what I've done before. But I've been working on it all year; I did it out here in Los Angeles in a theatre and kept developing it. Hopefully it'll be better. — Jason Graae

I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way. — Kristin Hannah

Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a developing book. And while you may successfully engage in a meaningful conversation with her, an additional part of her mind is frantically sifting through descriptive lines to be used if ever she were to write this exchange down. The trouble with writers is that they are ALWAYS writing! — Richelle E. Goodrich

Men make more money but have lower net worths. — Warren Farrell

The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness. — Michel De Certeau

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment. — Roger Penrose

Choosing to laugh doesn't undermine the serious work we have to do. It enables us to do it. — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul? — Sophy Burnham

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist. — Sister Souljah

Most women prefer lovemaking with romance, appreciation, respect, and caring with plenty of foreplay, satisfaction, and afterglow. — J.F. Kelly