Swiniarski Dracut Quotes & Sayings

When we are in control of everything and we have great panels of push buttons whereby the slightest touch fulfills every wish, what will we want then? We will eventually want to arrange to have a special, red button marked "surprise" built into the panel. Touch that button and what happens? We will suddenly disappear from our normal consciousness and find ourselves in a situation very much like the one we are now in, where we feel ourselves to be a little bit out of control, subject to surprises, and subject to the whims of an unpredictable universe. — Alan W. Watts

It made me expect certain things. You taught me not to expect those things. You made me believe I could be wanted. You wanted me when no one else ever has. — Abbi Glines

Knowledge is power; power corrupts. Corruption brings shame and ruin. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is perhaps preferable to a life lived in shame. — Lauren Kate

This is what it look like when it WORKS? — Jim Butcher

The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them. — Sun Tzu

Nobody ever loved as he loves, and so, of course, the rest of the world's experience can be no guide in his case. — Jerome K. Jerome

All the words you need are to be found in the dictionary. All you have to do is put them in the right order. — Emma Darcy

All of the moments where I was made to feel like an outsider in a group that was supposed to have room for me added up and left me feeling so much shame. — Gabby Rivera

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns. — Henry Parry Liddon

OK. Yoga position 99. — Nicholas Reardon

Have all beautiful things sad destinies? — Jean Rhys

Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest. The pivot of Tao passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge. He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point from which all movements and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship ... Abandoning all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition. — Zhuangzi

Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which morality will be imposed. — Douglas Wilson

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader. — Rudy Giuliani

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army. — Amity Gaige