Speriate Quotes & Sayings

The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. — Christopher Alexander

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression. — Milton Friedman

In 'Three Cups of Tea' I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve. — Greg Mortenson

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner. — George A. Sheehan

She put the Trust into her sister's hand. Magdalen took it from her mechanically. "You!" she said, looking at her sister with the remembrance of all that she had vainly ventured, of all that she had vainly suffered, at St. Crux - "you have found it! — Wilkie Collins

I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying. — Rosa Parks

If you don't have your own principals that you live and die by, then you will always be worried about what other people think — Lance Wallnau

The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also. — Virchand Gandhi

Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should stop acting like a lunatic state. Once it carries on like a normal country, I will be happily redirect my energies elsewhere. — Norman Finkelstein

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war. — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

The mystery existing between an open moment and a person's preparedness reveals the truth. — Masatoshi Nakayama

Peace originates with the flow of things - its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path. — Morihei Ueshiba

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear. — Carol Anshaw

This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment. — Chris Matakas