Terminated From Job Quotes & Sayings

You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top. — Blaise Pascal

I've learned that sometimes I have to give up my right to know and simply believe that God's knowing is enough. — Beverly Lewis

I don't have a type. I've dated so many different types, different personalities, different looks - from athletic to very non-athletic. The only thing I have to have is someone who is really motivated in life and challenges me. If I don't have that, I get bored. — Jill Wagner

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it. — Clive Barker

Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world. — Paul Watson

Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial. — Jose Manuel Barroso

I'm the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire. — Tana French

Just because one brother is good and one brother is bad in the same family, we cannot say that the rest of the family is bad or good. — Sri Chinmoy

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world. — Eckhart Tolle

We suffer in silence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump. — Janet Fitch

Animula vagula blandula
Hospes comesque corporis
Quae nunc abibis? In Loca
Pallidula rigida nudula
nec ut soles dabis Iocos.
Little soul, you charming little wanderer, my body's guest and partner,
where are you off to now?
somewhere without colour, savage and bare;
You'll crack no more of your jokes once you're there. — Hadrian

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens. — Tony Judt

Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject. — Allan McLeod Cormack