Eristavis Quotes

#1. In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

Claude Bernard

#2. A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Henry Miller

#3. No matter what I'm talking about, I can involve you into the story where you think it's you doing it. You're living it. I can remind you of things that went on in your life so you go, man I had that happen to me. I've been there. I've done that.

Larry Winget

#4. To be a bear and love a she-bear, that would not be such a bad life, and would, at least, be a far better one than to keep his reason and his thoughts, with all the rest that made him human, and yet live on alone, unloved, in sadness.

Hermann Hesse

#5. Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

Will Smith

#6. You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

Rei Kawakubo

#7. There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

Edward Thomson

#8. Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.

Mohnish Pabrai

#9. A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.

C.P. Cavafy

#10. I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders.

Jason Mraz

#11. That dawn he officiated at the daily mass of his ablutions with more frenetic severity than usual, trying to purge his body and spirit of twenty years of fruitless wars and the disillusionments of power.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. Wanting to be liked is often a very unlikeable characteristic.

Stephen Fry

#13. The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary, the perfection of yoga is attained when one actually sees the Personality of Godhead in His eternal form.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#14. My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

Ilie Nastase