Humanist Christmas Quotes

#1. I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.

Wang Shi

#2. We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsmen who cannot read at all, and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.

Eric Ries

#4. Writing is when I fly, writing is when I start fires. Writing is when I take death out of my left pocket, throw him against the wall and catch him as he bounces back.

Charles Bukowski

#5. In the age of hyper technology and cookie crumbs, you can only trust a man in a mask. Everyone else has too much to lose.

Wayne Gladstone

#6. Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land (271).

Richard Baxter

#7. You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.

Xavier Becerra

#8. On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

Otto Schily

#9. The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.

Sara Genn

#10. You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

Gene Simmons

#11. longer in extended bad weather. For passengers in steerage - scores

Daniel E. Harmon

#12. Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.

James McGreevey

#13. In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the payment of them.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#14. Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

Robert Towne