Winslows Buildings Texas Quotes & Sayings

SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice.
THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls? — Plato

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I'm reading always reminds me of whatever's happening in my life during that time. — Lauren Barnholdt

Success and leadership need to be redefined in communal categories. — Preben Vang

I work with a couple charities called Serving Those Who Serve and Rebuilding Together. Both are supportive of veterans when they come home. — Jessica Biel

All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings. — Frederick Lenz

A sudden thought struck me. Wouldn't it be odd if my mother got old! ... It is only natural that when your children are big you must be older but somehow I had never thought of its happening to my mother... What a peculiar thing to think of in the bright sunshine of the afternoon! — Maureen Daly

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All my ghosts had vanished; the retribution that they sought had been exacted. I had nothing more to give, and nothing to fear. — Abraham Verghese

When you give a homemade gift, you are giving a part of yourself to the recipient. You can't do that with a mass-produced item. — Mark Frauenfelder

Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too. — Billy Graham

As the statistician George E. P. Box wrote, "All models are wrong, but some models are useful." What he meant by that is that all models are simplifications of the universe, as they must necessarily be. As another mathematician said, "The best model of a cat is a cat."
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The key is in remembering that a model is a tool to help us understand the complexities of the universe, and never a substitute for the universe itself. — Nate Silver

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. — Paul Valery

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. — James A. Baldwin

The only thing that gets me high is the musky scent of my enemy's fear — Stephen Colbert

The front edge of the shockwave impacts the earth and you're both shoved to your backs against the crumbling asphalt of the parking lot, and then crushed into oblivion as the Earth, along with every celestial body of your solar system, is disintegrated into tiny shards and then sucked unceremoniously into the resulting black hole. — Daniel Keidl