Scordolea Quotes & Sayings

Life can be treated either as a journey to be enjoyed or as a set of milestones to cross, — Anonymous

The strange feature of partial reflection by two surfaces has forced physicists away form making absolute predictions to merely calculating the probability of an event. Quantum electrodynamics provides a method for doing this-drawing little arrows on a piece of paper. The probability of an event is represented by the area of the square of an arrow. For example, an arrow representing a probability of 0.04 (4%) has a length of 0.2. — Richard Feynman

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. — Charles De Gaulle

I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up. — Herschel Walker

If Americans are working harder than ever earning less than they once did, our government and our leaders should step up, offer a plan, fix what's wrong
or they should step aside, the recovery has been everywhere but in the family paychecks. The American Dream has become a mirage for far too many. — Jeb Bush

If you would wish the dog to follow you, feed him — Henry George Bohn

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet?
It would be appropriate.
When in Rome; burn it. — Iain M. Banks

A woman is a creature that's always shopping. — Ovid

Just handling this ocean of different books - new and used, in and out of print, famous and forgotten - it was literature as this giant mosaic of texts and experiments and attitudes. I think it's just very liberating to break out of a great man's theory of history.
I guess I've always liked working from that sense of - what would you call it? - license that the margins permit. I always just visualize myself writing books that were meant one day to be dusty, forgotten volumes being encountered by intrepid browsers in a used bookstore. It was a much less freighted way to think about trying to enter the conversation than to imagine I had to write The Great Gatsby. — Jonathan Lethem

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective. — Richard L. Evans

Life is a banquet, and most people are starving to death. — Dusty Pilot

Take democracy. According to the common-sense meaning, a society is democratic to the extent that people can participate in a meaningful way in managing their affairs. But the doctrinal meaning of democracy is different - it refers to a system in which decisions are made by sectors of the business community and related elites. The public are to be only "spectators of action," not "participants," as leading democratic theorists (in this case, Walter Lippmann) have explained. They are permitted to ratify the decisions of their betters and to lend their support to one or another of them, but not to interfere with matters - like public policy - that are none of their business. — Noam Chomsky