"We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us."

-- Karim Rashid

#Machines Quotes #Controlled Quotes

“... we are the products of our past. ... a web of complexities.”
“If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, sheâ€™s gonna call me Point B, because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me.”

Source : "If I should have a daughter". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.
“If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.”

Source : "Mr. Comics Talks Comics". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. July 21, 2006.
“They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.”

Source : "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "A Thought about Ourselves" (p. 122), 1999.
“I got jumped into a gang, but I never shot anybody or anything. I might have been in the car when something happened, but I was involved in the gangs just for the drugs. After a while, I just became an outcast of the gang because I just liked the drugs. I just wanted to do more drugs, anything you put in my hand.”
“As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.73, Pan Macmillan
“I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wishâ€”I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it andâ€”appraised itâ€”and taxed itâ€”and licensed itâ€”and staled it!”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2009). “The Indiscreet Letter: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com
“There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.”

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