Pmrc Senate Quotes

#1. Humans do not want to be better. A person may want to swim better or have a better smile. But they don't want humanity to swim better or have a better smile. It isn't even a question of "want," they don't care. I don't care.

Noah Cicero

#2. But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

Daniel Goleman

#3. Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.

Julie Burchill

#4. I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.

Thomas Keneally

#5. So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of a mission? Should you quit your job and find a goal? Probably not. But look around you. You may be on a mission, and not realize it yet.

Michael Bremer

#6. I will not change the world. Jesus will do that. I can, however, let Him use me to change the world for one person.

Katie Davis

#7. Gans and Savigny controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read

Victor Hugo

#8. He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.
-from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

Robert Jordan

#9. He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

Victor Hugo

#10. We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon

Walter Scott

#11. Lord Vetinari in a meeting: what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That's where the things were that they hoped he didn't know and didn't want him to find out.

Terry Pratchett

#12. The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.

Douglas Hofstadter