Sam Ratulangi Quotes

In fact, we can directly experience that consciousness is never improved or harmed by what it knows. Making this discovery, again and again, is the basis of spiritual life. ~ Sam Harris

I want us to be able to live our lives and experience things apart from each other, but at the end of the day, I would want to be able to fall asleep knowing that our lives are intertwined in a way that only we can understand. ~ Sam M

Obviously, guns are a way to protect yourself. ~ Sam Trammell

We do our friends no favors by pretending not to notice flaws in their work, especially when those who are not their friends are bound to notice these same flaws. ~ Sam Harris

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter. ~ Sam Altman

Astrid found the hem of his T-shirt and pulled it up over his head. She unbuckled his belt and shoved his jeans to the deck. She pushed him, gently but insistently, onto the bed. Then she undressed herself and stood in the faint light, looking down at him as he gazed up at her.
"You're giving me a reason to live," he said, half joking.
"I'm just recapturing the mood," she said, trying to make it sound light and sexy.
"You captured me a long time ago."
She climbed atop him. "We walk out of this together, Sam. Whatever it takes. You and me."
"You and me," he said.
She would not yet let him have her. "Whatever it takes," she insisted. "Say it."
"You and me," he said at last. "Whatever it takes."
"Swear it. ~ Michael Grant

Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself. ~ Sam Walton

Which was no abode of the dead because there was no death, not Lion and not Sam: not held fast in earth but free in earth and not in earth but of earth, myriad yet undiffused of every myriad part, leaf and twig and particle, air and sun and rain and dew and night, acorn oak and leaf and acorn again, dark and dawn and dark and dawn again in their immutable progression and, being myriad, one ... ~ William Faulkner

Nothing is more sacred than the facts. ~ Sam Harris

She would have done anything for Gabriel, the man shh spent the night with in the woods, if he' d give her even a single indication that he wanted her. She would have descended to Hell and searched for him, looking until she found him.She would have stormed the gates and dragged him back. She would have been Sam to his Frodo and followed him into the bowels ofMount Doom. ~ Sylvain Reynard

I expected to be happy, but let me tell you something. Anticipating happiness and being happy are two entirely different things. I told myself that all I wanted to do was go to the mall. I wanted to look at the pretty girls, ogle the Victoria's Secret billboards, and hit on girls at the Sam Goody record store. I wanted to sit in the food court and gorge on junk food. I wanted to go to Bath and Body Works, stand in the middle of the store, and breathe. I wanted to stand there with my eyes closed and just smell, man. I wanted to lose myself in the total capitalism and consumerism of it all, the pure greediness, the pure indulgence, the pure American-ness of it all. I never made it that far. I didn't even make it out of the airport in Baltimore with all its Cinnabons, Starbucks, Brooks Brothers, and Brookstones before realizing that after where we'd been, after what we'd seen, home would never be home again. ~ Matthew J. Hefti

These people say things like "If a liberal intellectual like you can't speak about the link between specific doctrines and violence without being defamed as a bigot, what hope is there for someone like me, who has to worry about being killed by her own family or village for merely expressing doubts about God?" So yes, I'm aware that one can't speak in Pakistan as I do here. ~ Sam Harris

Why I said cofounders that aren't friends really struggle, is that you can't be focused without good communication. ~ Sam Altman

We crowned ourselves Homo sapiens, the wise ape, but Homo limbus might have been more apt. ~ Sam Kean

A leader produces results that are out of the question and out of this world,that's how to rule the world. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that. ~ Sam Kinison

Be the bravest of the brave! Offer solution to the world's greatest challenge. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

It is important to realize that our inability to answer a question says nothing about whether the question itself has an answer. ~ Sam Harris

A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality. ~ Sam Kean

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about. ~ Sam Taylor-Wood

The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going. ~ Sam Worthington

Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them. ~ Sam Weller

In a world of true abundance you shouldn't have to work to justify your life. ~ Sam Harris

But while Sam may not know what happened, he's witnessed the scars. Not the physical scar, but the emotional ones. And those are far deeper. **** ~ Danielle Pearl

You're not from around here, are you?" asked the room service girl.
"No," I replied. "That's why I'm staying at a hotel . . . ~ Sam Harris

God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator. ~ Sam Storms

I think that in general
well, at least it's true for me
you tend to put something of yourself into the story as a whole. Not necessarily in any character, you understand. But you've got your own way of looking at the world, and that naturally will affect how you craft a story. ~ Sam Lake

Way back when the Sam Peckinpah film The Wild Bunch premiered, a woman journalist raised her hand at the press conference and asked the following: "Why in the world do you have to show so much blood all over the place?" She was pretty worked up about it. One of the actors, Ernest Borgnine, looked a bit perplexed and fielded the question. "Lady, did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?" This film came out at the height of the Vietnam War.
I love that line. That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. And bleeding. Shooting and bleeding. ~ Haruki Murakami

1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day. ~ Sam Altman

You can be happy! Seek pleasurable satisfaction and enjoy your state of well-being. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things. ~ Sam Altman

You still worked, thinking I didn't.
But I do still work.
I still work and I want you to know that. ~ Sam Pink

Jerry was a massive, lumbering, redheaded, freckled bully whose head was vastly disproportionately larger than the rest of his body. Like one of those effigies people burn at political rallies. ~ Sam Harris

Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation. ~ Sam Houston

The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to God, the Master Craftsman, the Creator of all things, who uses us, our hands, as His tools to make these beautiful things. ~ Sam Maloof

I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur. ~ Sam Walter Foss

Growth solves (nearly) all problems ~ Sam Altman

I tell you now, Andy," said Sam, with awful superiority, "don't yer be a talkin' 'bout what yer don't know nothin' on; boys like you, Andy, means well, but they can't be spected to collusitate the great principles of action."
Andy looked rebuked, particularly by the hard word collusitate, which most of the youngerly members of the company seemed to consider as a settler in the case, while Sam proceeded. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

I'm surprised no one's come to greet you," Sam murmured.
"Gawk. Not greet. ~ Jodi Meadows

Impressive deduction," Ryan murmured. "You certainly look deeper than most." He brushed back a strand of my hair, and I screwed my eyes shut. He was doing this on purpose. "But let me give you some advice." His lips were right next to my ear. "I wouldn't peer too far. Even the clearest window can cast back your own reflection. ~ Sam Dogra

It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge. ~ Sam Houston

That's how life is: it provides these accidental answers. Or it seems to. You have to judge by results. ~ Sam Munson

Dream Your World. Be Your World. Flaunt Your World. ~ Sam Maggs

When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine. ~ Sam Worthington