Etta Moten Barnett Quotes

#1. The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

Publilius Syrus

#2. Mother Teresa is credited with saying, "God didn't call us to be successful, just faithful.

Max Lucado

#3. Coffee is to a Writer as Blood is to a Vampire!

Kade Cook

#4. Skiing is always so huge, you need so many talents to be fast and be good at this sport.

Tina Maze

#5. Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.

Alfred North Whitehead

#6. Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

Thomas Merton

#7. The object ... is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

Francis Galton

#8. Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don't fall.

Henry Mosquera

#9. Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.

Douglas Coupland

#10. The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Joseph Butler

#11. To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Thomas Paine

#12. The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.

Bill Gates

#13. I went to the club to escape my life and pretend I'm somebody else. Now I don't know who I am anymore.

E. Leo Foster

#14. There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson