Resolvers Transducers Quotes & Sayings

The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up. — Lou Reed

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. — Jean Ingelow

It pleased him to imagine God as someone like his mother, someone beleagured by too many responsibilities, too dog-tired to monitor an energetic boy every minute of the day, but who, out of love and fear for his safety, checked in on him whenever she could. Was this so crazy? ... Miles liked the idea of a God who, when He at last had the oppotunity to return His attention to His children, might shake His head with wonder and mutter, "Jesus. Look what they're up to now." A distractible God, perhaps, one who'd be startled to discover so many of His children way up in trees since the last time He looked. A God whose hand would go rushing to His mouth in fear in that instant of recognition that - good God! - that kid's going to hurt himself. A God who could be surprised by unanticipated pride - glory be, that boy is a climber! — Richard Russo

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be. — Edward Albee

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago. — Edwin Percy Whipple

I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a new challenge. — Landon Donovan

If love was magic you wouldn't be amazed, you much rather look at reality in a daze. see love is merely a four letter phrase, It's here It's there it may never change. For love is a verb an action, a zing, It is never a person place or thing. — Aja Taylor

You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found, — Martin Parr

You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here. — Alan W. Watts

There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every surface, as if in this mass of people a man could be so lonely as to want to speak to the buildings. — Peadar O'Guilin

to surrender freedom in the name of safety, we should be on our guard. There is no necessary tradeoff between the two. — Timothy Snyder

Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it. — Elizabeth Strout

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries. — Orhan Pamuk

Nothing stands today where it stood yesterday. The choice which life presents is ever more between growth and decay, perfection and deterioration. There is no standing still, not can be. Advance or recede, occupy or give place, are the stern and inoperative alternatives, [the] self-existing and self-enforcing law of life, from the cradle to the grave.

He who despairs of progress despises the hope of the world, and shuts himself out from the chief significance of assistance -- and is dead while he lives. — Frederick Douglass

If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first. — S. N. Goenka