Zazdrostki Quotes & Sayings

Pandas and rain forests are never mentioned when it comes to the millions of people taking joyrides in their Range Rovers. Rather, it's the little things we're strong-armed into conserving. At a chain coffee bar in San Francisco, I saw a sign near the cream counter that read NAPKINS COME FROM TREES - CONSERVE! In case you missed the first sign, there was a second one two feet away, reading YOU WASTE NAPKINS - YOU WASTE TREES!!! The cups, of course, are also made of paper, yet there's no mention of the mighty redwood when you order your four-dollar coffee. The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free. — David Sedaris

29Jesus answered, "The most important is, v 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, w the Lord is one. 30And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 31 x The second is this: y 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment z greater than these. — Anonymous

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It is not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't — L.M. Montgomery

The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion. — Kevin Shields

As Emerson wrote in "Experience," an essay that confronted the facile positivism of his age: "We have learned that we do not see directly, but mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these subject-lenses have a creative power; perhaps there are no objects." George Berkeley, for whom the campus and town were named, came to a similar conclusion: "The only things we perceive," he would say, "are our perceptions. — Robert Lanza