Followup Quotes

#1. As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

Larry Wall

#2. I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

Tom Waits

#3. Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else. And like everyone else, your joy, your heart and your soul are in danger.

Kevin DeYoung

#4. When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don't feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

Lily Tomlin

#5. When I get asked the question, "Do I want to loan you money?" I want to know, how much do you earn? How much do you owe? What is your net worth? When people talk about countries for some reason they only ask how much did you earn and what's your debt?

George Friedman

#6. Hypocrisy is when you get mad at a friend for telling their other friend a secret that your other friend told you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#7. Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Alfred North Whitehead

#9. You don't know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you acquire a facial scar. On the plus side, it's so situated as to make me look tough and worldly. On the downside, I'm never kissing my dog again.

Rodney Ulyate

#10. Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.

Christian De Duve

#11. There is an endless kingdom to be enjoyed, and everlasting life to be given us, that we may live in that kingdom forever.

John Bunyan

#12. Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

Emmylou Harris

#13. A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

David Dreman

#14. You have the freedom to trust and the freedom to turn. This is the profound and sometimes painful mystery of community and love.

William Paul Young

#15. It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment-when you see that face, you are transformed forever.

Penelope Cruz

#16. Ordinary people are products of their environment. Extraordinary people make their environments products of them.

Matshona Dhliwayo