Zivast Quotes

#1. We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

Laurence Sterne

#2. If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.

Billy Graham

#3. I do not want any inscription on my tombstone. A blank stone, because what I would like to leave behind me is the sentiment of a great mystery.

Philippe Auclair

#4. His self-loathing didn't fully set in, though, until club fair day in the cafeteria, when he saw her sitting with the Young Republicans. Ouch. Leave it to him to fall for someone who was both out of his league and beneath his dignity.

Anonymous

#5. Witches, shapeshifters, and fae were one thing. Vampires were monsters, plain and simple. That whole sensitive Children of the Night thing was total b.s.

Rachel Hawkins

#6. Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.

Barry Ritholtz

#7. The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Brian Tracy

#8. Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

Saul Williams

#9. I really think that people are getting fed up with the computer generated music. I think it had a little time where it was new and it kind of worked, but it's so overdone that people are getting sick of it, and are turning back to real music.

Jason Reeves

#10. Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

Kevin Kelly

#11. That may be great for a married couple, but I think it is a stupid idea for two people trying to get to know each other! If you are a young man trying to get to know a young girl, for heaven's sake, don't take her to a movie!

Richard G. Scott

#12. Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#13. Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.

George Meade

#14. There be three gentle and goodlie things,
To be here,
To be together,
And to think well of one another.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.

Erykah Badu