Portefaix Quotes & Sayings

There are to-day two millions of nomad Mongols encamped about the south-eastern steppes of Russia, still living in tents, still raising and herding their flocks, little changed in dress, habits, and character since the days of Genghis Khan. While this is written a famine is said to be raging among them. — Mary Platt Parmele

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. — Plato

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them. — Hank Aaron

It is not that God's help and presence must still be proved in our life; rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, in God's Son Jesus Christ, than to discover what God intends for us today. The fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than the fact that I will die. And the fact that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead is the sole ground of my hope that I, too, will be raised on the day of judgment — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Extreme programming is an emotional experience. — Kent Beck

Man cannot be trusted unless they are watched — Bram Stoker

I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha. — George Foreman

If you wish to expel religion from our European civilization you can only do it through another system of doctrines, and from the outset this would take over all the psychological characteristics of religion, the same sanctity, rigidity, and intolerance, the same prohibition of thought in self-defense. — Frans De Waal

If these out-of date beliefs are to be called myths, then myths can be produced by the same sorts of methods and held for the same sorts of reasons that now lead to scientific knowledge — Thomas S. Kuhn

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold,
So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most. — Ovid

I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them. — John Diefenbaker