Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet?
My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.
the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.
Oh yeah, Scooby, it does. You and I have gone round many a day. I’m the reason you keep thinking you’ve had alien abductions. (Caleb)
Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.
Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.
I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.
God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.
There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.
Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use all that we have
A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.
There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.
Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine." "My mom suffers from those a lot, too." "Being around you, I imagine she does.
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.
I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.
I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine.
He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner
He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?
Things are changing. They need to change more. It should not be of any note that a woman does something, because women do everything.
I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.
The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer.
Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.
Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.
Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.
Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.
Stop looking for the perfect church. It does not exist. Even if it did exist, the moment we joined it, it would no longer be perfect!
Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.
If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.
Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.
Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.
If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.
Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.
The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him
What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.
... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.