Potc Barbossa Quotes & Sayings

It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles - a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species. — John Steinbeck

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty. — Mother Teresa

Freedom from anxiety is characterized by three inner attitudes. If what we have we receive as a gift, and if what we have is to be cared for by God, and if what we have is available to others, then we will possess freedom from anxiety. This is the inward reality of simplicity. However, if what we have we believe we have gotten, and if what we have we believe we must hold onto, and if what we have is not available to others, then we will live in anxiety. Such persons will never know simplicity regardless of the outward contortions they may put themselves through in order to live the simple life. — Richard J. Foster

Your intentions create your experiences. — Doreen Virtue

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on ... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great. — Oliver Goldsmith

This time, his gaze fixed on her and stayed. The wind blew, whipping her skirts about her ankles, as if he'd called up a gale with the intensity of his stare. — Courtney Milan

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity. — Charles Spurgeon

If you ignored a cake's personality the cake would ignore you. It'll be a rude, boring cake. I — Penny Reid

Because my life without you would be
a place of parched and broken trees ... — Mary Oliver

I want to be happy. Like, seventy to eighty percent of the time. I want to be actively, thoughtfully happy. — Rainbow Rowell

Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing ... — Barry Ritholtz

America takes her writers too seriously. — Kingsley Amis