Sheehy Ford Quotes & Sayings

It is important to expose yourself to ideas you don't agree with from time to time. Attend a political rally of a party you do not like. — Fred Green

Never be distracted by people's glamorous portraits of themselves and their lives; search and dig for what really imprisons them. — Robert Greene

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday. — Howard Zinn

Spirit is therefore unalterable because it is already perfect, but the mind can elect what it chooses to serve. The only limit put on its choice is that it cannot serve two masters. If it elects to do so, the mind can become the medium by which spirit creates along the line of its own creation. If it does not freely elect to do so, it retains its creative potential but places itself under tyrannous rather than Authoritative control. As a result it imprisons, because such are the dictates of tyrants. To change your mind means to place it at the disposal of true Authority. — Foundation For Inner Peace

I understand that people can start to say stop it, let me have a break and look at my emails without having an ad pop up. — Maurice Levy

The only thing rational about man, the rational animal, is his ability to rationalize his own present position. — Allen MacDiarmid

A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities. — Eric Hoffer

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point. — Marco Brambilla

On the village green an inclined strong, down which, clinging the while to a pulley-swung handle, one could be hurled violently against a sack at the other end, came in for considerable favour among the adolescent, as also did the swings and the cocoanut shies. — H.G.Wells

It may just be," he added, "that there is something fundamentally unworkable about government itself. As long as Homo sapiens terra is a wild animal, which he has always been and always will be until he evolves into something different in a million or so years, maybe a workable system of government is a political science impossibility, just as transmutation of elements was a physical-science impossibility as long as they tried to do it by chemical means. — H. Beam Piper

Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

If you have not learnt anything, but have learnt one thing that the Goal of life is to be Happy, you have learnt everything!-RVM — R.v.m.

Being in one's 50s is a powerful time. — Pamela Stephenson

NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic. — Sarah Shahi

You'll not go anywhere," he announced. "Yes, I will," she said, through gritted teeth. "You'll use a chamber pot." "I will not!" He thrust his hand in front of her face. The heavy silver ring sat prominently on his middle finger. "This says you'll obey me," he growled. "You'll use the chamber pot because I command you to do so!" "You'll have to hold me there and that just isn't going to happen," Jessica argued. "What is the difference between that and - " "Richard!" He made a sound of impatience. "'Tis nothing to be ashamed of, Jessica. I would expect the same care from you. And if memory serves, I had it when I had the fever before. Isn't that so?" "It was different." "Aye, 'twas me with my arse bared to the daylight! — Lynn Kurland