Pretalab Quotes & Sayings

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity. — Hugh MacLennan

I detested you, at the moment of my death ... My soul cannot move beyond that ... As long as you live, I cannot rest!
-Kikyo to Kagome — Rumiko Takahashi

In accident investigation, as in most other human endeavours, we fall prey to the What-You-Look-For-Is-What-You-Find or WYLFIWYF principle. This is a simple recognition of the fact that assumptions about what we are going to see (What-You-Look-For), to a large extent will determine what we actually find (What-You-Find). (The principle is furthermore not limited to accident investigation, but applies to human perception and cognition in general.) In accident investigations, the guiding assumptions are sometimes explicit, for instance when they are given as a directive or objective.

Erik Hollnagel. The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off (Kindle Locations 998-1000). Kindle Edition. — Erik Hollnagel

I'll always be chasing you ... Glory. — Sidney Poitier

Ever have that one friend who gets a Valentine's Day gift for their mother? Doens't that freak you out a little? It's like, 'I don't know how to break this to you but I think she's banging your dad!' — Russ Meneve

Infinite mercy flows continually
But you're asleep and can't see it. — Rumi

Though sleep was dearly needed, it was not welcomed, for even in sleep I was tormented. — Dave Moore

My heart hurt when I remembered him, but the alternative was forgetting, and that was the final kind of death - when nobody told your story anymore. — Ann Aguirre

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why, — Montgomery Clift

I have not been able to give a concrete answer to the question of how the nations of Asia can create their own unique liberal arts traditions that are not simply the importation of a Western model. The question is a critical one and the answer must come from Asian universities themselves. — Henry Rosovsky