Kansas City Shuffle Quotes

#1. The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it is to cope with, and indeed live in, the dangerous and uncertain environment of war.

Martin Van Creveld

#2. What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

Laozi

#3. I thought you called dibs on him."
"I did, but you can have him first. After he dumps you, imagine how good I'll look in comparison."
"Thanks, that's not insulting at all.

Cecily White

#4. Time spent for temporary happiness like movie or outing or weekend on a beach is all synthetic; with shelf life of a day or two. Work for your bigger dreams that should last for whole life. Then movie and beach would seem more interesting, realising that you have done something.

Vikrmn

#5. We have created crime, just as the propertarians did. We force a man outside the sphere of our approval, and then condemn him for it. We've made laws, laws of conventional behavior, built walls all around ourselves, and we can't see them, because they're part of our thinking.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

Francis Bacon

#7. One conservation worker we met said he sometimes wondered if the mating call of the male didn't actively repel the female, which is the sort of biological absurdity you otherwise find only in discotheques.

Douglas Adams

#8. It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Jimmy Carter

#9. Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast extent upon gardens derive from sun, earth, art, water, history, civilization, family, anything.

Tom Turner

#10. I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

Alexandre Dumas

#11. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. EPHESIANS 2:12-14

David Platt