Zabtha Quotes & Sayings

Got the itch? - Jared — Martha Sweeney

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations. — Josiah Strong

Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was. — Dennis Miller

It is my ignorance of God's design that makes me quarrel with him. — John Flavel

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. — Steve Martin

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. — Samuel Smiles

Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation. — Max Planck

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery? — Theodore Dalrymple

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. — George Stigler

A FEW YEARS AGO, I heard a wonderful story, which I'm very fond of telling. An elementary school teacher was giving a drawing class to a group of six-year-old children. At the back of the classroom sat a little girl who normally didn't pay much attention in school. In the drawing class she did. For more than twenty minutes, the girl sat with her arms curled around her paper, totally absorbed in what she was doing. The teacher found this fascinating. Eventually, she asked the girl what she was drawing. Without looking up, the girl said, "I'm drawing a picture of God." Surprised, the teacher said, "But nobody knows what God looks like." The girl said, "They will in a minute. — Ken Robinson