Unzipping A File Quotes & Sayings

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. — Sergei Rachmaninoff

Maybe He's already given you a miracle. You just can't see it. — Rachelle Ayala

At times the engine stopped, and grown-ups and children climbed out of the carriages with tins to collect water from the engine steam pipes. This was the only drinking water that we had access to, and though it was hot and very rusty, it was the best drink I felt I'd ever had. — Alfred Nestor

As far as evil goes" - she shrugged one shoulder - "I've spent a dozen years studying the subject and there's one thing I know for sure." Her expression grew distant, breakable somehow. She blinked and seemed to push whatever had distracted her aside. "If you want to know what evil looks like, look in the mirror." She leaned down, flattened her hands on the table once more, and went face-to-face with Wells. "Any one of us is capable of evil, Detective. We all have a line. It's not crossing it that separates us from the Ed Geins and Charles Mansons of the world. — Debra Webb

Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand. — Chevy Chase

If we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us. Those who do not rise to the minimal moral level of applying to themselves the standards they apply to others
more stringent ones, in fact
plainly cannot be taken seriously when they speak of appropriateness of response; or of right and wrong, good and evil — Noam Chomsky

Nature's old felicities. — William Wordsworth

Practice what you preach. Don't be a staggering image of the same shame you place upon others. Live, love, be free. Most of all be real. — LaNina King

We would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. — Blaise Pascal

But hope is not about what we expect. It is an embrace of the essential unknowability of the world, of the breaks with the present, the surprises. Or perhaps studying the record more carefully leads us to expect miracles - not when and where we expect them, but to expect to be astonished, to expect that we don't know. And this is grounds to act. — Rebecca Solnit

I can't see any reason that anyone would want a computer of his own," DEC president Ken Olsen declared at a May 1974 meeting where his operations committee was debating whether to create a smaller version of its PDP-8 for personal consumers. — Walter Isaacson

They had it all wrong, of course. Bravery wasn't required to conquer fear. Indifference was. — Stephanie Kuehn