Tapajos People Quotes & Sayings

If you are obsessively active, please at least pause to ask yourself why and to listen for the answer from the still, quiet voice alive and well within you. I don't have an answer for the hurry sickness afflicting our society and our souls. But I do trust that the how-to-stop-it is within you, and you can change your pace if you want to. — Sue Thoele

You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates. — Anthony Rizzo

I had never had an adequate notion of what Christians meant by God. I had simply taken it for granted that the God in Whom religious people believed, and to Whom they attributed the creation and government of all things, was a noisy and dramatic and passionate character, a vague, jealous, hidden being, the objectification of all their own desires and strivings and subjective ideals. — Thomas Merton

One person with belief is worth a thousand people with only an interest. — JohnA Passaro

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians — Tariq Ramadan

You turn hotdogs with tongs. Don't you ever use those tongs on a hamburger. — J. B. Smoove

When you don't know what you can have, you do okay with what you've got. — J.D. Robb

If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly. — Prince Philip

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues. — Ruth Brown

And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity. — Katherine Applegate

These algorithms, which I'll call public relevance algorithms, are-by the very same mathematical procedures-producing and certifying knowledge. The algorithmic assessment of information, then, represents a particular knowledge logic, one built on specific presumptions about what knowledge is and how one should identify its most relevant components. That we are now turning to algorithms to identify what we need to know is as momentous as having relied on credentialed experts, the scientific method, common sense, or the word of God. — Tarleton Gillespie

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power. — Joseph Nye

I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more centralized governance and the scope for democracy - democratic control - will be resolved through an even stronger role of the European Parliament. — Mario Monti

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really. — Morrissey