Sifters And Strainers Quotes & Sayings

In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge. — Edmund Phelps

Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years. — Lamar Hunt

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. — Ralph Barton Perry

I said I was an English major, that I wanted to write someday, that I read the way other people ate chocolate. — Francesca Lia Block

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money. — Ihara Saikaku

The rows of empty jugs had multiplied with the speed of caged rabbits. — Daniel Polansky

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of. — Terence McKenna

Christine and I are together," he blurted out. "I love her. Please don't hurt me. — M. Lathan

what knowledge haunts each body, what history, what phantom ache? — Natasha Trethewey

It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years. — William Faulkner

My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning, and may be many; but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one. The more you love and trust Him, the nearer you will feel to Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother. — Louisa May Alcott

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks. — Reinhold Niebuhr