Specification Section Quotes & Sayings

Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning. — Clifford Geertz

So I want to say that of all the people I have known, you are the only person I regret leaving behind. — Ayn Rand

Imagination is the first stage of escapism. — Sheila N. Eskew

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man. — Mark Twain

I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness,' but a lot of fighters go overboard. — George Foreman

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. — William Ewart Gladstone

I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. It is, but there are a lot of times where people treat it like a sport - there are tricks you can pull, different combinations that make something better. I don't really think I approach it that way, but I definitely have a love for the science that is pop song writing. — Halsey

The moment you say, "We are proud. I'm proud to be this, and I'm proud to be that," what you're saying is we're almost as good as the others. "Almost" always means not quite. — Harry Hay

With all that in mind, I left the banana, and got into my sixty-nine Camaro with a pocket full of cash, and a painful cock and balls. — Tabatha Vargo

An uncertain warrior is no warrior at all. — Heather Day Gilbert

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet. — Barney Frank

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active. — Octavia Spencer

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance. — R.C. Sproul