Promeneur Quotes & Sayings

They really need to cite their sources, you think to yourself, which would make your seventh-grade science teacher proud if only he knew.
It's a moot point, however. — Daniel Keidl

Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the factory, and "progress" to define its parameters as on that intangible but much lauded entity called nature. In short, the summer camp should best be read not as a simple rejection of modern life, but, rather, as one of the complex negotiations of modernity taking place in mid-twentieth century Canada. — Sharon Wall

Try to live as if there were a God — Muriel Rukeyser

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured. — Tacitus

But selfish isn't necessarily a bad thing. It only means you take care of yourself and you have to do that to be able to take care of others. — Tera Lynn Childs

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes. — E.W. Howe

The scientist was first discovering the laws of God, in the faith that the workings of the world could be reformulated into the terms of the word, the reason, and the law which they were obeying. As the hypothesis of God made no difference to the accuracy of his predictions, he began to leave it out and to consider the world as a machine, something which followed laws with no lawgiver. Lastly, the hypothesis of pre-existing and determinative laws became unnecessary. They were seen simply as human tools, like knives, with which nature is chopped up into digestible portions. — Alan W. Watts

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself! — Vivienne Westwood

It's probably no accident that whenever one hears of a smart technology, it refers to something that has been taken out of human control. — Tom Vanderbilt

If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future. — Jim Rohn

[ ... ] to judge from the Internet postings that people have sent me, probably most of what you learned [about me] was nonsense. — Theodore Kaczynski

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it ... — Harriet Beecher Stowe