Putka Pods Quotes & Sayings

The pursuit of your passion will spark the flame of a happy soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play. — Oscar Robertson

Without first knowing yourself, how can you know what is true? Illusion is inevitable without self knowledge. It is childish to be told and to accept that you are this or that. Beware — Jiddu Krishnamurti

In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. If creation had been left up to me, I'm sure I wouldn't have had the imagination or courage to do more than shape a single, reasonably sized atom, smooth as a snowball, and let it go at that. — Annie Dillard

Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved. — Delphine De Girardin

People like to say the West is a guilt-based culture, while that of Japan is based on shame, with the chief distinction being that the former is an internalized emotion while the latter depends on the presence of a group. But — Barry Eisler

These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives. — Hari Kunzru

The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it; start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It'll grow and it gets better and better and better. — Richard Ballantine

The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions. — Thomas Banchoff

Now, labour being in itself a pain, and man being naturally inclined to avoid pain, it follows, and history proves it, that wherever plunder is less burdensome than labour, it prevails; and neither religion nor morality can, in this case, prevent it from prevailing. When does plunder cease, then? When it becomes less burdensome and more dangerous than labour. It is very evident that the proper aim of law is to oppose the powerful obstacle of collective force to this fatal tendency; that all its measures should be in favour of property, and against plunder. — Frederic Bastiat

Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words. — Sarah Palin

A lot has happened since I said that." "You saw a double rainbow," she said, "and now you believe in aliens. — Rainbow Rowell

Occasionally Rebecca wished her son would not be so very kind to her, as though she was the losing pitcher on a Little League team. — Anna Quindlen

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity — Nelson Mandela