Uken Tools Quotes & Sayings

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence. — Donald Justice

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. — Gerald R. Ford

Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can drink. — Scott Lynch

I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough. — Anita Shreve

Let no one say that I have said nothing new ... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better. — Blaise Pascal

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed. — Ray Davies

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons. — Dennis Kucinich

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible ... — William Gaddis

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion. — David Hume

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself. — Jack McDevitt

Etymologically, "compassion" means to suffer together. "Together," however, is different from "identically." Compassion is not the same as selflessness, and not really the opposite of selfishness. Rather, it provides a basis for helping other people that is materially disinterested but emotionally self-regarding. As Rousseau wrote in Emile, "When the strength of an expansive soul makes me identify myself with my fellow, and I feel that I am, so to speak, in him, it is in order not to suffer that I do not want him to suffer. I am interested in him for love of myself ... " Or, as Jean Bethke Elshtain has said, "Pity is about how deeply I can feel. And in order to feel this way, to experience the rush of my own pious reaction, I need victims the way an addict needs drugs. — William Voegeli

Dance today is clearly in an unsettled state. Old forms and traditions are being given up. New ones are arising to take their place. A time of change presents a confused picture. That there is change is proof that dance is organically vital
and much more so than it has ever before been in this country. — Margaret H'Doubler

I have been blind expecting everything to stay the same. — Philibert Orry

Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort of spending isn't strictly the province of hip-hop. It's almost like a continuation of the American Dream. — Simon De Pury

If you don't write, then read. — Sylvia L'Namira