Markus Almond Quotes

#1. I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Steven Wright

#2. The point is that if the knowledge that provides the categories we use to describe our observations is defective, the observation statements that presuppose those categories are similarly defective.

Alan F. Chalmers

#3. The two suns! It was like mountains of fire boiling into space.

Douglas Adams

#4. Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles.

Mary Lydon Simonsen

#5. The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched.

Kami Garcia

#6. Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant, and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!

William Beckford

#7. We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.

Harriet Martineau

#8. Moreover, not unlike presidential candidates who hold babies up in the air as soon as the cameras are rolling, male chimps vying for power develop a sudden interest in infants, which they hold and tickle in order

Frans De Waal

#9. Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

Wayne Dyer

#10. Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now.

Christina Milian

#11. Don't blame the situation, don't blame other people

Gatot Soedarto

#12. If there is no fundamental science then there is no basis for applied science. We have to strike a balance. 23 years ago the World Wide Web was born here. It has changed the world dramatically.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#13. Zen has an expression, "nothing special." When you understand "nothing special," you realize that everything is special. Everything's special and nothing's special. Everything's spiritual and nothing's spiritual. It's how you see, it's what eyes you're looking through, that matters.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#14. The most valuable lessons we will ever learn are the ones that happen after we fall flat on our faces without anyone around to catch us.

Markus Almond

#15. People who feed off chaos are hungry for attention and starved spiritually. Their appetite for dysfunction is insatiable. Don't allow them to feast off the blessings God prepared for YOU.

Carlos Wallace

#16. It is not what others do or even our own mistakes that hurt us the most; it is our response to those things.

Stephen R. Covey