Ildefons Cerda Quotes

#1. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

Robert M. Pirsig

#2. [David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

David Bowie

#3. Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.

Radhanath Swami

#4. Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.

Hilary Mantel

#5. Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.

Orhan Pamuk

#6. What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

Karl Kraus

#7. It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

Harold Laski

#8. If two people could make each other smile and laugh and forget all the pain and darkness in the world for a moment, why should we feel ashamed of it?

Leah Raeder

#9. I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Charlie Chaplin

#10. Change itself is changing. The process of evolution itself is evolving. There is a meta-evolution, or a metachange that is taking place. And in that process what you see is actually an increasing contrast between change and the eternal or the unchanging.

Yasuhiko Kimura

#11. Attempt something so big, that unless God intervenes, it's bound to fail.

Jamie Buckingham

#12. If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

Robert Fripp

#13. The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

William Henry Harrison