Tally Craven Quotes & Sayings

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. — Niklaus Wirth

How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important. — Pat McBride

Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either. — Warren Buffett

So much in this world does not seem real. We think we are so connected nowadays -- cell phones, Internet, and constant access to everything and everybody. But we're not really connected. We've forgotten what's real. We've forgotten how to interact with the world around us. Not just to see something on a screen but to feel it, to smell it, to taste it. That's reality. — Deron R. Hicks

In the end, people will not be judged by the darkness they lived in, but by the light they rejected. — Anthony Liccione

But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone ... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see. — Gregory Maguire

Life goes on with fragile normalcy. — Sara Gruen

I don't think we have ever had real democracy in this country. Anyone who studies adoption of the constitution will understand quite clearly that; democracy - as we understand that on today; was the last thing the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution ....it was: to establish strong central authority responding the elitist interests in United States. That's private property. And those men who wrote the constitution were representatives of the elites. They were the lawyers, bankers, merchants, the land owners, slave owners and so forth. And they write the constitution for their own private interest$. That is how government has served ever since. And that is why we have so little democracy in United States. — Philip Agee

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged. — Brandon Stanton

The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money. — James Carlos Blake