Sandifer Quotes & Sayings

If a self-organizing system becomes too static, it runs down; if it becomes too chaotic, it breaks apart. — Danah Zohar

I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is going to happen that's going to completely change the nature of society. They only disagree on whether we get a happy ending or all die horribly. And so utopianism is on the wane right now because at the moment most of the plausible candidates for huge historical transformation look like they're going to kill us. — Phillip Sandifer

It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart ... so it can be a lovely, merciful thing to think, 'Actually, there is no path I can take without having my heart broken, so why not get on with it and stop wanting these extra-special circumstances which stop me from doing something courageous?' — David Whyte

I wasn't talkative - I simply had too much intelligence up in my head that I always had a brilliant idea to share with everyone at all times. — Nick Nwaogu

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball. — Bo Jackson

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance. — Maud Hart Lovelace

My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk. — Tracy Spiridakos

I think it's awesome, — Avril Lavigne

Eric Roberts, for all the criticism he gets, is at least having fun with the script. His decision to devour large swaths of scenery locate him firmly in the tradition of Graham Crowden and Joseph Furst. Which is to say that he's not destined for fan acclaim, but he's easy to like if you're of the mind to. — Phillip Sandifer

The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it. — Elie Wiesel

We make reality our own, handle it until it is soft as pressed butter. — Lauren Oliver

For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We'd been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life. — Elizabeth McCracken