quotes about Current Affairs

“We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of the discovery of the infinitesimal calculus, and in a measure also when in the development of projective geometry obstacles were suddenly removed which, having hemmed progress for a long time, permitted a stream of investigators to pour in upon virgin soil. There is no longer any browsing along the beaten paths; and into the primeval forest only those may venture who are equipped with the sharpest tools.”

“Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.”

Source : "Baseball lists: funny lines, great nicknames" by Bruce Jenkins, www.sfgate.com. April 3, 2016.

“It's hard to be objective about your own work.”

“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”

“I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt”

Source : Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.101, Macmillan

“Some of you young folks been saying to me, 'Hey Pops, what you mean what a wonderful world? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? They ain't so wonderful either.' But how about listening to old Pops for a minute. It seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad, but what we're doing to it, and all I'm saying is see what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love, baby, love. That's the secret. Yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And man, this world would be a gasser.”

Source : Spoken intro to "What a Wonderful World", 1970.

“A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.”

“Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.”

“At the Sharper Image store, I saw a body fat analyzer. Didn't that used to be called a mirror?”

“Just take a breath and see what happens.”