Vdara Quotes & Sayings

I know there is a supreme God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without being under suspicion — Kin Hubbard

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems . — Niels Bohr

Finn saw his grandfather look up, push himself to his feet and watch. — Shane Hegarty

When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove in the brain. I trace the ongoing, victorious-feeling semi-starvation of my twenties directly back to adolescence - as a way of showing those assholes that I could control my appetites ... Which is so sad, in retrospect, because of course no one cared. — Kate Christensen

Evolution, energy, and ethics are the core elements that will guide us along the challenging path toward the Life Era: the first - evolution - because a good understanding of our universal roots and of our place in the cosmic scheme of things will help us create a feasible future course; the second - energy - because our fate will bear strongly on the ways that humankind learns to use energy efficiently and safely; and the third - ethics - because global citizenship and a planetary society are crucial factors in the survival of our species. — Eric Chaisson

I trust God to meet my every need. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people. — Barbara Kingsolver

The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside what we usually think of as good reasons. It's asking us to stop calculating. It's asking us to do something for the plain old delight and interest of it, not because we can justify its place on the mental spreadsheet or accounting ledger (like the one Benjamin Franklin kept) by which we tote up the value of our actions. — Alan Jacobs

Via our left hemisphere language centers, our mind speaks to us constantly, a phenomenon I refer to as "brain chatter." It is that voice reminding you to pick up bananas on your way home and that calculating intelligence that knows when you have to do your laundry. There is vast individual variation in the speed at which our minds function. For some, our dialogue of brain chatter runs so fast that we can barely keep up with what we are thinking. Others of us think in language so slowly that it takes a long time for us to comprehend. Still others of us have a problem retaining our focus and concentration long enough to act on our thoughts. These variations in normal processing stem back to our brain cells and how each brain is intrinsically wired. — Jill Bolte Taylor

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. — Joseph Conrad

The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads. — Sheldon Richman

Fire will run like poetry through your blood. — Rachel Neumeier

I think that the way we begin our day is really the way we live our day and the way we live our lives; and that not enough of us are really aware of it. — Louise Hay