Varputis Quotes & Sayings

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right — Dennis Prager

I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving. — Julie Anne Peters

Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office ... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank? — Malcolm Forbes

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50 ... I had the strength for new deeds and ideas. — Edvard Munch

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick. — Tennessee Williams

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. — Janet Jackson

What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity. — Ron Davies

One of Sherrington's greatest pupils, Sir John Eccles, held similar views. Eccles won a Nobel Prize for his seminal contributions to our understanding of how nerve cells communicate across synapses, or nerve junctions. In his later years, he worked toward a deeper understanding of the mechanisms mediating the interaction of mind and brain-including the elusive notion of free will. Standard neurobiology tells us that tiny vesicles in the nerve endings contain chemicals called neurotransmitters; in response to an electrical impulse, some of the vesicles release their contents, which cross the synapse and transmit the impulse to the adjoining neuron. In 1986 Eccles proposed that the probability of neurotransmitter release depended on quantum mechanical processes, which can be influenced by the intervention of the mind. This, Eccles said, provided a basis for the action of a free will. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now. — Jack Carroll

I can't keep my nose clean if it's buried in pussy, Uncle Bill. — Anonymous