Sobeslavsk Quotes & Sayings

My crystal ball is fuzzy — Lotfi A. Zadeh

Architecture trumps licensing any time. — Tim O'Reilly

The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch — Mark Rippetoe

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. — William Gaddis

You could expect many things of God at night when the campfire burned before the tents. You could look through and beyond the veils of scarlet and see shadows of the world as God first made it and hear the voices of the beasts He put there. It was a world as old as Time, but as new as Creation's hour had left it.
In a sense it was formless. When the low stars shone over it and the moon clothed it in silver fog, it was the way the firmament must have been when the waters had gone and the night of the Fifth Day had fallen on creatures still bewildered by the wonder of their being. It was an empty world because no man had yet joined sticks to make a house or scratched the earth to make a road or embedded the transient symbols of his artifice in the clean horizon. But it was not a sterile world. It held the genesis of life and lay deep and anticipant under the sky. — Beryl Markham

And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do — David Bowie

I've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow. — Susanne Bier

My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. — W.E.B. Du Bois

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt. — Mary Russell Mitford

As for me, some days I believe in God, and some days I do not."
Then Dodger said, "Is that allowed?"
Solomon pushed the door open and then fussily began locking it up again behind him. "Dodger, you fail to understand the unique arrangements between Jewish people and God. — Terry Pratchett

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people. — George Dzundza

Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities. New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him. — Abdu'l- Baha

If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything. — George Head

Burnham and Root became rich men. Not Pullman rich, not rich enough to be counted among the first rank of society alongside Potter Palmer and Philip Armour, or to have their wives' gowns described in the city's newspapers, but rich beyond anything either man had expected, enough so that each year Burnham bought a barrel of fine Madeira and aged it by shipping it twice around the world on slow freighters. — Erik Larson