Wiseacre Ananda Quotes

#1. Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#2. We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation.

Mikheil Saakashvili

#3. The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

#4. By contrast, training and goal-setting programs had a far greater impact on productivity than did anything involving payment.32

Alfie Kohn

#5. Stepping beyond the domain of our best model, with its tantalizing mix of solid evidence and troubling difficulties, we enter the realm of speculation. Why is our universe just as it is?

Trevelyan

#6. Judge if you want, we are all going to die. I intend to deserve it.

Joey Comeau

#7. I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.

F. Paul Wilson

#8. As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.

Tom Udall

#9. Wait," Toby said, talking over her as she looked around at all of us. "So this means all you guys are off, like, rounding the bases and I'm still in the dugout. I'm the person selling Cracker Jack in the stands."
"This metaphor is getting weird," Palmer murmured to me.

Morgan Matson

#10. People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.

Jane Goodall

#11. It was one thing to know that Ashley was engaged but it was another to hear people talk about it so casually.

Margaret Mitchell

#12. Apple has never allowed ad-blocking software on the iPhone or iPad. This is one among many reasons that I ditched both. Not because I hate ads all that passionately, but because it's an example of the obsessive corporate control Apple maintains over its environment.

Kevin Drum