Taviani Kaos Quotes & Sayings

But it was only the twentieth century in Europe that had universal education and the belief in progress - a net gain of knowledge among all. And that's now been abandoned as a goal." "Why?" "It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less. — Sebastian Faulks

I don't mind doing awful things as long as somebody else does. I would totally jump off the bridge, thanks for asking. — Michelle Tea

Men may plot and plan and scheme, but they had best pray as well, for no plan ever made by man has ever withstood the whims of the gods above. — George R R Martin

We have only one life. We may waste it, or we may use it to learn of God and what God wants for us. And we all make mistakes. Only one life. — Glenn Beck

It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it. — Elizabeth Goudge

I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded. — Robert Pattinson

It's hard to measure up to 'Battlestar' - it's hard not to measure things against it. — Jamie Bamber

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time. — Tony Hoare

To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, any more than long-enduring whiteness is whiter than ephemeral whiteness. — Alasdair MacIntyre

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. — Hermann Ebbinghaus

You can be the most beautiful woman in the world and see yourself as hideous. You must love yourself. To look in the mirror and tell yourself that you're a rock star. — Demi Lovato

If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun. — Elliott Smith