Stakeout 1987 Quotes & Sayings

There wouldn't be so many stories about vampires and zombies and other weird creatures if they didn't really exist. — R.L. Stine

The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all. — Swami Vivekananda

How long someone's been doing it is overrated. What matters is how well they've been doing it. — Jason Fried

The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet ... From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. — Zora Neale Hurston

We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal. — Scott Jurek

I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't. — Charles Bukowski

In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'. — Terry Pratchett

Of old I used to say that in my body, that in the body of this grass and of this beetle (there, she didn't care for the grass, she's opened her wings and flown away), there was going on a transformation of matter in accordance with physical, chemical, and physiological laws. And in all of us, as well as in the aspens and the clouds and the misty patches, there was a process of evolution. Evolution from what? into what?
Eternal evolution and struggle ... As though there could be any sort of tendency and struggle in the eternal! — Leo Tolstoy

The Democrats are incapable of even being accused of violating political correctness, so they don't even worry about it. The Democrats have really grown accustomed, however, to Republicans not attacking, not criticizing them. — Rush Limbaugh

she had never been alone to care for her own self one day of her life, nor could it ever have occurred to her that she might become responsible for the well- being of another. — John Williams

I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human endeavors, but I think the methodology of our science - using it to postulate and to use the proper approach of creating falsifiable hypotheses and then testing them to see if they ring true, and then progressing by finding the anomalies to our theoretical structure, and then improving our theoretical structure to take care and test the anomalies - is the way to go, because that helps us discover what the universe.is all about and our relationship to it. — Edgar Mitchell

I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness. — Mother Teresa

I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life. — Dalai Lama XIV