Riempie Stoel Quotes & Sayings

Polish, Lithuanian, and German - "Dom. — Upton Sinclair

It is where we embrace our questions ... Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions? — Terry Tempest Williams

To have the spirit of youth and the wisdom from age. Is to have used the eternal fountain of life within our very souls. Not for an instant but for a lifetime. Amen. — Ivan Alexander Pozo-Illas

When I die, don't bring me to the hospital. Bring me to Anfield. I was born there and will die there. — Steven Gerrard

Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people ... He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan. — Floyd Patterson

Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means of an apparatus attached to his body, the use of which requires personal skill. Artificial flight by a single individual is the proper beginning for all species of artificial flight, as the necessary conditions can most easily be fulfilled when man flies individually. — Otto Lilienthal

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist. — Oscar Wilde

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine. — Fred Brooks

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention. — Boris Sidis

Maybe at the very bottom of it ... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like God because I don't believe in God, but in the same sense that I don't like Iago, or the Reverend Slope or any of the other villains of literature, the god of traditional Judaism and Christianity and Islam seems to me a terrible character. He's a god who will ... who obsessed the degree to which people worship him and anxious to punish with the most awful torments those who don't worship him in the right way. Now I realise that many people don't believe in that any more who call themselves Muslims or Jews or Christians, but that is the traditional God and he's a terrible character. I don't like him. — Steven Weinberg

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. — Oliver Goldsmith