Yagni Principle Quotes & Sayings

It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them! Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them. — Joseph De Maistre

My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else. — Melissa Etheridge

Fermat wrote in the margin: "I've discovered a truly wonderful proof for this argument. Unfortunately, this margin is too narrow to contain it." Two — Peter Hoeg

I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical ashes.
Is the life of mind something like that of great trees of immemorial growth? Is the living layer of consciousness super-imposed upon hundreds of dead layers? Dead? No doubt this is too much to say, but still, when memory is slack the past becomes almost as though it had never been. To remember that we did know once is not a sign of possession but a sign of loss; it is like the number of an engraving which is no longer on its nail, the title of a volume no longer to be found on its shelf. My mind is the empty frame of a thousand vanished images. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality — Barbara Marx Hubbard

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that. — Hugh Grant

I do not open my doors for liars. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man; and it is an easier faith that plants and animals may dwindle down into an elemental atom, than that this atom should embrace in its organization, and evolve, all the noble forms of vegetable, animal, and intellectual life. — David Brewster

I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why. — Jennifer Donnelly

God gives life, strength and wisdom for every accomplishment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You will find, if you seriously study Scripture, that outside of the idea of hell, there is no more terrifying idea in the Bible than God setting you free to run in the imagination of your heart. — Matt Chandler

'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction. — Gerard Way

Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally. — Alexander Pope

The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black. — Dave Matthews

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock. — Ovid