Zonen 09 Quotes

#1. There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Daniel Goleman

#2. Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. Here is an unbroken space in which a woman and a man may with the full sanction of society, practically make love to each other with their eyes, their fleeting touch, and the display of their bodies. Emblem of marriage, indeed.

Laurie Viera Rigler

#4. We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice.

Sulak Sivaraksa

#5. The only difference between magic and science . . . is time.

Sue Duff

#6. Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23

Jurgen Moltmann

#7. Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.

Dorothy West

#8. Since that era the question "Do you have any food restrictions?" has become a part of the etiquette of a dinner invitation, and participants at conference dinners can now tick a box that will replace a plate of rubber chicken with a plate of sodden eggplant.

Steven Pinker

#9. The miniaturization of electronics, which ultimately was driven by the marketplace, was started by NASA, because it costs money to get something into orbit. So you want to trim your electronics, miniaturize your electronics, miniaturize your satellites.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

Victor Borge

#11. Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.

Baltasar Gracian

#12. I remember Mum repeatedly telling us we had good hearts and good brains. When she said that we'd say 'thanks' and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.

Helen Oyeyemi

#13. Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

David Wilkerson