Matthew Bauman > Matthew's Quotes

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“Rising demand for oil exposed Europe, and later America, to oil shocks - serious interruptions in supply. Like a pebble tossed into a pond, an oil shock creats ripples, or effects, felt everywhere.

Oil shocks have two causes. The first is natural, because existing oil fields may not yield enough to satisfy demand. Scarcity results in higher prices for oil products, reducing our standard of living. Natural scarcity was not a problem in the world's major producing areas until recently.

The second cause of oil shocks is political. Political shocks happen when governments of oil-producing countries reduce or halt supply to gain the upper hand in dealings with other governments. This is the case in the Middle East, where oil has often mixed with politics, religion, and blood. The reasons for this have shaped the history of recent times.”
― Albert Marrin

“I had a dream about you. You were in the oil business, and I sold icy roads for a living. You didn’t understand who’d buy such a thing, and I said you didn’t understand how earmarks get slipped in Congressional bills.”
― Jarod Kintz, Dreaming is for lovers

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain

“If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.”
― Richard Feynman

“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - A Book For All And None

“People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!”
― Richard Feynman

“I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.”
― Jim Henson

“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
― John Lennon

“Was it hard?" I ask.
Letting go?"

Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”
― Lisa Schroeder

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”
― John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”
― Isaac Newton

“I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time.
She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.”
― Woody Allen

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.”
― Galileo