#ex

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ex




It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.


Roby James


#complex #systems #change

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.


George Burns


#like #pool #rope #sex #shoot

So I’m just learning more and more that circumstances can be very different from place to place but culture is universal. you know, humans do things the way humans do things, and that doesn’t change whether those humans are in Zambia or they’re in England or they’re in America.


Alex Day


#change

Continuous exercise can wear you down and wear you out. What once was a passion has now become just a chore that you dread.


Helen M. Ryan


#exercise #habits #not-wanting-to-exercise #change

It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot!


Rick Yancey


#history #humor #monster-snot #monstrumology #change

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.


John Ruskin


#effort #expression #imperfection #judgment #mercy

There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.


J. Aleksandr Wootton


#human-experience #listening #silence #wisdom #change

Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.


Saint Frances de Sales


#existence #mistake #patience #perfect #triumph

Everything changes eventually, not necessarily for the bad, but not always for the good, either


J.M. Darhower


#change

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed," he said. "And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses." "Excuses, eh?" Well, if this ain't cynicism, what is?" Erens snorted. "Yes, excuses," he said, with what Erens thought might just have been a trace of bitterness. "I strongly suspect the things people believe in are usually just what they instinctively feel is right; the excuses, the justifications, the things you're supposed to argue about, come later. They're the least important part of the belief. That's why you can destroy them, win an argument, prove the other person wrong, and still they believe what they did in the first place." He looked at Erens. "You've attacked the wrong thing.


Iain M. Banks


#belief #erens #excuses #instinct #justifications