Richard Kent Matthews Quotes

Almost the entire world is asleep. Those who are awake live in constant amazement. ~ Tom Hanks, Joe Vs. The Volcano

Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency. ~ Richard M. Nixon

fear can only be created by an enclosed mind happiness and laughter are all measures of are success when the reality are goals are all the same death

so the reality of success can be seen as a disguise to protect from the fear which is death ~ Richard Kent

We know from Philo there was already a Jewish tradition of a preexistent being named Jesus who was the Form of God (Element 40). It cannot be claimed Philo came up with this notion on his own, since that would entail a wildly improbable coincidence. So we surely are looking at a derivation from an earlier Divine Logos doctrine. Then we're told this Jesus did not try to seize power from God in heaven (as by some accounts Satan had once done, resulting in his fall to the lower realms), but instead divested himself of all his power and higher being, enslaving himself (either to God's plan or the world of flesh) by 'being made' [genomenos] in the 'likeness' of men (not literally becoming a man, but assuming a human body, and thus wearing human 'flesh'). ~ Richard C. Carrier

The Strategic Bombing Survey estimates that "probably more persons lost their lives by fire at Tokyo in a 6-hour period than at any [equivalent period of] time in the history of man." The fire storm at Dresden may have killed more people but not in so short a space of time. More than 100,000 men, women and children died in Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945; a million were injured, at least 41,000 seriously; a million in all lost their homes. Two thousand tons of incendiaries delivered that punishment - in the modern notation, two kilotons. But the wind, not the weight of bombs alone, created the conflagration, and therefore the efficiency of the slaughter was in some sense still in part an act of God. ~ Richard Rhodes

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time. ~ Richard J. Mayer

They all thought that civilized Germans would not stand for anything really rough happening." Szilard held no such sanguine view, noting that the Germans themselves were paralyzed with cynicism, one of the uglier effects on morals of losing a major war. ~ Richard Rhodes

I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it. ~ Richard Dawkins

One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be. ~ Richard Carlson

Interesting, Miles thought. Like himself, Father Mark, as a child, had been reassured by the imagined proximity of God, whereas adults, perhaps because they so often were up to no good, took more comfort from His remoteness. ~ Richard Russo

I don't much like it when people commit unsavory acts and try to shift the blame onto me. ~ Richard Lee Byers

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules. ~ Richard P. Feynman

The original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the bomb work. ~ Richard P. Feynman

Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night. ~ Richard Price

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white, ~ Richard M. Nixon

All humor is rooted in pain. ~ Richard Pryor

The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him? ~ Richard Baxter

First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation, in my opinion, cannot be surpassed. Certain stories lend themselves well to 3-D animation and I won't labor this with naming them, but in my bones, I still respond more emotionally to the artists feel in 2-D. You feel the 'actor' in the animator more personally ... it's hard to explain. ~ Richard Sherman

Mathematics is filled with such instances where it is important to regard one set as a subset of another. ~ Richard Hammack

Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football. ~ Richard Sherman

I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their right. What I fear is that this minority may seem to be larger than it truly is. What is strange is that there are still people who believe the world is not a globe. ~ Richard Leakey

There is no doubt in my mind that the literature on climate change overwhelmingly supports the hypothesis that climate change is caused by humans. I have very little reason to doubt that the consensus is indeed correct. ~ Richard Tol

If you want to get to know me, you have to get off the baseball field. Because when I'm on the field, and in the clubhouse, I'm doing what I'm paid to do, what I love to do, and man, I hate it when I fail. ~ Jeff Kent

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making. ~ Richard Florida

For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed. ~ Richard Attias

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists. ~ Richard P. Feynman

My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens. ~ Richard Smalley

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. ~ Richard Bach

In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question. ~ Richard Saul Wurman

But you know how Richard feels. He thinks it would be wrong - more than that, he thinks it would be irresponsible to give in to such a wish when reason tells him he must not. ~ Terry Goodkind

I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it. ~ Richard Pryor

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail. ~ Kent Beck

When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them. ~ Richard E. Grant

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray. ~ Richard Crashaw

What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone. ~ Richard Schmid

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character. ~ Richard G. Scott

I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software. ~ Kent Beck

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence. ~ Richard Yates