Uhlmann Powell Quotes & Sayings

The mind plays tricks on itself in order to stay in one piece. — Meg Wolitzer

It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind. — Gene Wolfe

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too. — Max Lucado

Socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, as the socialists would like you to believe, but a consolidate-and-control-the-wealth program for the Insiders. — Gary Allen

I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures if we are to avoid them we must understand that they are possible. But where are the alternatives Where are the dreams that motivate and inspire We long for realistic maps of a world we can be proud to give to our children. Where are the cartographers of human purpose Where are the visions of hopeful futures of technology as a tool for human betterment and not a gun on hair trigger pointed at our heads — Carl Sagan

... ... but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance — C. William Beebe

The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers. — Margaret Thatcher

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet. — David Ulevitch

Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat. — Alan W. Watts

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. — Benjamin Franklin

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. — John Podhoretz

And the state of his bathroom
I'm not one to gossip, but there are things crusted on his sink that have not simply developed intelligent life, but have in all probability by now envolved their own political systems. — Neil Gaiman

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone. — John Barton