“In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.” LittlesHomeLyingOrderWomenChanceHavensCreatingSurvivalViolentIslandsSanityChaotic Book:Falling Bodies Source: Falling Bodies
“If I do get a handgun, I can take it to the sheriff's department, and in about as much time as it would take me to order a value meal at Wendy's, they will give me a concealed-carry license. There will be no screening at all to see whether I'm qualified to carry a gun in public - which I absolutely am not. That's one of the reasons I haven't gotten a gun in the first place: I don't know how to use one.” IfsKnowsGivingFirstsI CanReasonUseValuesOrderKnow HowHavensGunGive MeMealsDepartmentTake MeLicenseQualifiedConcealedScreeningHandgunsSheriffsWendyConcealed Carry Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“In order to achieve goals you have not achieved before you have to become someone you haven't been before.” OrderGoalAchieveHavensAchieving Goals Author:Jim Rohn
“Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.” WorldMadeUseChristianJobsOrderCenturyHavensPhrasesGood JobHeartbreakingSave The World Author:Richard Rohr
“Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make up their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him, for example, talking about my record in the state of Texas. I mean, he's willing to say anything in order to convince people that I haven't had a good record in Texas.” PeopleMindWellsMeanStatesHumorPoliticalOrderPresidentTalkingRecordsHavensExampleWillingConvinceTexasSay AnythingPolitical HumorPunditsGood Records Author:George W. Bush
“I don't have to sympathize or empathize with a human being in order to be able to portray them. I mean, some of the greatest roles that actors have been able to play haven't been the most endearing on screen.” HumansMeanHas BeensPlayAbleOrderActorsHuman BeingsRolesHavensScreensEndearing Author:Dustin Lance Black
“I listen to my records and I think, 'Wow, these are really great appetizers. I haven't even considered what I'm going to order for the full entree meal yet.'” ThinkingOrderRecordsHavensMealsWowReally GreatAppetizersEntrees Author:Alanis Morissette
“If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.” IfsWritingTwoUseActionOrderThreeStuffSimpleForgetBusinessTakenWrittenWeekHavensValuableCardsProductiveAssetsForget It Author:Seth Godin
“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.” ThinkingMenTryingYearsBelieveHumansTwoWholeLastsOrderI BelieveViolenceHavensCreationChangedIgnoranceThousandConsequenceDestructionChaosValuableIdeologyTriumphSpiteThousand YearsGentlenessVendetta Author:Kenneth Clark
“Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results.” IfsThinkingWarEnoughLastsOrderWinningResultsPracticeCenturyHavensAdopted Book:The Lost Fleet: Courageous Source: The Lost Fleet: Courageous
“The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.” MindHumansOrderBrainHavensDependsReachingHuman MindHuman BrainHabitatArtifactsMemesRestructure Book:Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanins of Life Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanins of Life
“My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.” WritingOrderHeardHavensMusic IsFavourite Author:John Cage
“I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingYearsStillsTwoProblemOrderChoicesBitsDyingHavensPlanetsShapesComfortableYears AgoOkayTwentiesCamerasComplexesPhotographerTwo YearsClueEightyOur PlanetTwenty TwoTwo Years AgoComplex Problems Author:Eugene Richards
“In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.” NeedsYearsFactsHappensLastsOrderCompanyAchieveHavensToughTough TimesBatteries Author:Bill Gates
“It's never the practice to shoot the scenes in the proper order. Sometimes you shoot the final scenes of a film before you've even started the beginning. So you get good at it because you have to sort of just eliminate the memories of something you've done as an actor, which you haven't done as the character yet. But it sometimes is a bit of a mind-f**k.” MindSometimesDoneCharacterFilmOrderActorsBitsMemoriesPracticeHavensSceneFinals Author:Luke Evans