Rigorism Moral Quotes & Sayings

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change. — Sandra Brown

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles — Bjarne Stroustrup

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free. — Wallace Stegner

Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off? — Yvon Chouinard

despair

sometimes
hope leads us on
teases us with
its shiny baubles
its stunning horizons

it can carry us over
the roiling turmoil
the raging storm
then as easily
with its cornucopia of lies
drop us into the waves

to flounder against its loss — Barry DeCarli

Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to happen to, a conscious separate center. But reality is all and nothing, the totality and the exclusion, the fullness and the emptiness, fully consistent, absolutely paradoxical. You cannot speak about it, you can only lose yourself in it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it's even harder to recognize the truth when it's buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like. — Shannon Mullen

Management, in the sense of employer, is merely the agent for the public, the stockholders and the employees. It is management's job to preserve the balance fairly between all these interests, that each may have his fair share without imperiling the continuity of the effort upon which the whole depends. — James F. Bell, III

There was of course no point in trying to monitor Eisman. He saw himself as a crusader, a champion of the underdog, an enemy of sinister authority. He saw himself, roughly speaking, as Spider-Man. — Michael Lewis

I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.' — Hugh Jackman

I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so. — Ricky Martin

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well. — Wilbur Smith