Passados Presentes Quotes

#1. The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

Dixie Lee Ray

#2. Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

Clive Thompson

#3. I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

Hosea Ballou

#4. Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

Phillip Noyce

#5. The Godhead consists of three separate, distinct personages who are one in purpose. The Father and the Son have tangible bodies of flesh and bone while the Holy Ghost is a personage of spirit.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#6. Their faces said : This is your home; and I .
I never come home, I never go away.
And they all answered : Stay.

Muriel Rukeyser

#7. The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.

Max Lucado

#8. All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

James Jeans

#9. Secrets interest us all, I think.

Dan Brown

#10. It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

Martha Beck

#11. To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.

John Maynard Keynes

#12. Every time I look at you I think to myself that I've found perfection. Adam said as he shifted his weight over me. I Looked at him and smiled, 'Now that's flawed perfection".

Cassandra Giovanni

#13. I'm not feisty. But when you're as small as I am and female if you don't stand up for your rights, you're sure to be pushed around by big, hairy, smelly men with delusions about male superiority.

Robert A. Heinlein

#14. Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

John Maynard Keynes

#15. On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan