Ruth Becker Quotes & Sayings

The thing can never be separated from someone who perceives it; nor can it ever actually be in itself because its articulations are the very ones of our existence, and because it is posited at the end of a gaze or at the conclusion of a sensory exploration that invests it with humanity. To taking up or the achievement by us of an alien intention or inversely the accomplishment beyond our perceptual powers and as a coupling of our body wit the things. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years. — Margot Kidder

Imagination is a glorious thing, Without imagination there would be no solace for our suffering, no wondrous creations, no stories to beguile us, and no magic... — Karen Wrighton

You are always going to get extreme views around coaches and players. — Rob Andrew

The Door of Knowledge Through Which the Untutored May Not Pass sticks something wicked in the damp. — Terry Pratchett

Please listen to me: There is someone out there who loves you. Please hold on for dear life. Things are never as dark as they seem. Talk with someone immediately and let them know how you're feeling, in the same way you'd talk to them if you had a terrible flu. I'm feeling really sick. Can you help me? — Sean Covey

Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the character, the drive, the intentions. It's like a gift. — Christian Camargo

So, if someone like Richard Dawkins indignantly protests that his passion about these sorts of things -- the passion that drives the "God Delusion" -- should not be taken as a religious passion, I am happy to accept that. I do nevertheless think that often Dawkins and company show the sociological characteristics of the religious. This comes across particularly in what Freud calls the narcissism of small differences, the hatred of those who are close to them but not quite close enough. Just as evangelicals can differ bitterly over the true meaning of the host, so the New Atheists loathe people like me who (like them) have no religious belief but who think that science as such does not refute religion.
[Is Darwinism a Religion? - Michael Ruse] — Michael Ruse

A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive. — Barton Gellman

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. — Vanessa Mae

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. — David Bly

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green. — Seamus Heaney

My child, if I have any object in life, it is to provide for your being a good, a sensible, and a happy man. I am bent upon it. — Charles Dickens

Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die. — Neil Young