Sonido Condor Quotes & Sayings

I knew books to be objects that loved to cluster and form disordered piles, but here books seemed robbed of their zany capacity to fall about, to conspire. In the library, books behaved themselves. — Sheridan Hay

Humans are great optimizers. We look at everything around us, whether a cow, a house, or a share portfolio, and ask ourselves how we can manage it to get the best return. Our modus operandi is to break the things we're managing down into its component parts and understand how each part functions and what inputs will yield the greatest outputs . . . [but] the more you optimize elements of a complex system of humans and nature for some specific goal, the more you diminish that system's resilience. A drive for efficient optimal state outcome has the effect of making the total system more vulnerable to shocks and disturbances. — Stanley McChrystal

True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without. — Og Mandino

A woman needs to know that her man are strong enough to handle her. — Leah Brooke

I am I, and I wish I weren't. — Aldous Huxley

He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men. — Dan Groat

Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with. — Ansen Dibell