Wrtings Quotes

#1. Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!

James MacGregor Burns

#3. Unconditional love asks nothing, not even that it be returned.

Ted Chiang

#4. The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

Eliot Spitzer

#5. I can only imagine that future generations will consider us to have been barbaric for our intolerance of differences.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#6. Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back.

Katherine Howe

#7. Everyone thought because she was so too-ga-tha she didn't feel pain and the men she went with felt the same.

Sherley Anne Williams

#8. They'd had to empty their pockets and turn over Aunt Val's purse to the security guard. That way, I wouldn't be tempted to try to kill anyone with her lip gloss and her travel-size pack of tissues.

Rachel Vincent

#9. Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.

Abraham Verghese

#10. There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

Richard Lederer

#11. Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Bruce Lee

#12. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64)

Mary Doria Russell

#13. The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques.

Howard Raiffa