Textaparent Quotes & Sayings

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light. — Roland Gift

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons. — Toba Beta

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul
breaking the mental manacles
getting the brain out of bondage
giving courage to thought
filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy. — Robert G. Ingersoll

It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can. — Christopher Strachey

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry — Ted Nelson

The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in the streets, Bedouins and bankers. The Turks and Haredim, the showy Greek and Russian processions -- everyone seemed to be in costume, reenacting the miraculous past. — Stewart O'Nan

Life turns grey as the leaves fall in Autumn. — Kieron Shepherd

While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage. — Calvin Coolidge

Secrets are what can ease or crush a soul, mend or destroy a heart, and rescue or murder a life. — Alexis Hurley

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start. — Dennis Eckersley

Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds. — Mark Twain

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love. — Pope Francis