Grossenbacher Obituary Quotes

#1. It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. Happiness finds its way to those who have their doors open. Don't shut the door on its face and complain of never finding it.

Mansi Soni

#3. philosophers of difference are, in fact, hyperethical and radical political thinkers, concerned with how movements that seek to address marginalization need to become even more ethical, even more radical in their desire to change the status quo in view of justice.

Matthew Calarco

#4. Fuck off, I said. Which always means I've lost an argument. I started backing out of the tomb.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.

Michael Polanyi

#6. Faith does not come from our understanding. It comes from the heart. We do not believe because we understand; we understand because we believe (see Heb. 11:6). We'll know when our mind is truly renewed, because the impossible will look logical.

Bill Johnson

#7. If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.

Charlie Munger

#8. I was a hyper kid, so I didn't want to play baseball and wait for the ball to come to me. I wanted to play a sport where I could go get the ball.

Shane Larkin

#9. The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

Robin Williams

#10. Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.

Gad Elmaleh

#11. We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.

Hans Hofmann

#12. In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Oscar Wilde

#13. You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

Chris Christie

#14. Denial and affirmation are games which people play.
There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.

Idries Shah