"How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?"

-- William Logan

#Stuff Quotes #Soil Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 47), February 27, 1963.
“I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.”
“I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could do more for the union, but I wish to do more; for the destruction of the union would be the destruction of all the States. A stab in the heart is worse then a cut in a limb, for this may be healed.”
“When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. 'I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry.' And you do that so that people in the room might go, 'What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities.'”
“I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.”
“Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue....”
“As Einstein queried, 'Why is it that I get my best ideas in the morning while I'm shaving?' Shaving is like meditation with a sharp object. When the mind is empty and receptive, big ideas flow through every cell of our body. When we're thinking too hard, we tense up and nothing can flow through us; our energy gets stuck in our heads. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go.”
“Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.”

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