Victers Quotes & Sayings

For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind — Paul Klee

Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. [ ... ] A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past. — Stephen Jay Gould

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility. — David Gower

When you want to turn around a company, make sure that the solution is coming from the inside. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

They aren't skanks and they aren't stupid. I prefer to call them 'scantily-clad ladies with limited vocabulary. — Tara Sivec

Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not think ... In silence, we might better say, we can hear someone else think. — Pico Iyer

A competitive culture endures by tearing people down. — Jules Henry

Now if you have proofs to bring forward, bring them forward, and your moral discourse as well; if you have no enthymemes, then fall back upon moral discourse: after all, it is more fitting for a good man to display himself as an honest fellow than as a subtle reasoner. — Aristotle.

The secret strength of things
Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome
Of Heaven is as a column, rests on thee,
And what were thou and Earth and Stars and Sea
If to the human mind's imaginings
Silence and solitude were Vacancy? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

You smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die. — John Green

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed. — Rosie Batty

Fill your mind with compassion. — Gautama Buddha

One thing I've always loved doing is hanging out and talking music with other artists. — Nikki Sixx