Steede Obit Quotes & Sayings

Learning is hard work, but everything you learn is yours and will make subsequent learning easier. — Marijn Haverbeke

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived. — Samuel Alexander

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child. — Pat Benatar

Americans have a taste for ... rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased. — G.K. Chesterton

The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want. — Richard Schickel

The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent. — Albert Schweitzer

I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player. — Matt Sharp

The fact is, with the exception of our own minds, no power on earth has the consistent and absolute ability to convince us that we are wrong. However much we might be prompted by cues from other people or our environment, the choice to face up to error is ultimately ours alone. — Kathryn Schulz

If you knew what a sensation of the nearness of a higher power one instinctively feels when one is permitted to contribute to the good of mankind, as I have done, and still do! Believe me, it is a great gift of God's mercy! — Jenny Lind

The last thing I want to do ... is offend people and ostracize myself. — John Rocker

Get shitfaced, then face the shit. — David Levithan

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing; — Rudyard Kipling