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As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion breaks through an unreflecting mind. – The Dhammapada
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers. – Cyril Connolly
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. – Josh Billings
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost. – Jean Jacques Rousseau
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me the State may be given up for lost. – Jean Jacques Rousseau
As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary! – Mehmet Murat ildan
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. – Pythagorus
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. – Albert Schweitzer
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. – Noam Chomsky
As soon as there is life there is danger. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly! – Amelia Earhart
As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. – Maurice Wilkes
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. – Helen Keller
As the evening sun faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. – Buddha
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes. – Bhagavad Gita
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool. – Akhenaton
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like." – Cicero
As the old proverb says Like readily consorts with like. – Cicero
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. – Woody Allen
As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon – Tom Daschle
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present. – Maitri Upanishads

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