Ringstrand Soderberg Quotes & Sayings

Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is because no event comes to us without being already shot through with explanation. In other words, by now almost nothing that happens benefits storytelling; almost everything benefits information. Actually, it is half the art of storytelling to keep a story free from explanation as one reproduces it ... The most extraordinary things, marvelous things, are related with the greatest accuracy, but the psychological connection of the event is not forced on the reader. It is left up to him to interpret things the way he understands them, and thus the narrative achieves an amplitude that information lacks. — Walter Benjamin

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. — Milton Friedman

The man you married is yours to have and to hold for the rest of ever, even if he starts chewing tobacco or decides to pierce his hairy nipple and buy a Corvette, because you very plainly said - or at least implied - you were in it for better or for worse. — Jenna McCarthy

The man of genius is he whose ego has acquired consciousness. He is enabled by it to distinguish the fact that others are different, to perceive the "ego" of other men, even when it is not pronounced enough for them to be conscious of it themselves. But it is only he who feels that every other man is also an ego, a monad, an individual centre of the universe, with specific manner of feeling and thinking and a distinct past, he alone is in a position to avoid making use of his neighbours as means to an end. — Otto Weininger

When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food. Historians write about social change without taking these factors into account. This is why it is difficult for them to see the reasons decline and prosperity in society. — Michio Kushi

Life doesn't always give you what you ask for, but it always gives you what you need. — Robin S. Sharma

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people. — Cynthia Kenyon

In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award. — Hack Wilson

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection. — George Eliot

Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It's hard to know exactly how many empty houses there are...the census placed the figure, in the United States, in 2000, at about 10.5 million housing units (including apartments, counting duplexes as two, and so forth). For comparison: less than a quarter million people lived in homeless shelters in 2000. — Shay Salomon

Emotion is not just some "primitive" remnant of an earlier reptilian evolutionary past. Emotion directs the flow of activation (energy) and establishes the meaning of representations (information processing) for the individual. It is not a single, isolated group of processes; it has a direct impact on th entire mind. (p. 263) — Daniel J. Siegel