team building quotes

Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The Theologian is an owl, sitting on an old dead branch in the tree of human knowledge, and hooting the same old hoots that have been hooted for hundreds and thousands of years, but he has never given a hoot for progress. ~Emmet F. Fields



"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know. ~Andre Gide



Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. ~Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081



Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack. ~Adam Morrow, quoted in Bill Simmons, "Letters from the Nation," 20 October 2003



A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



I prefer to think of them as the Ten Suggestions. ~Author Unknown



The bluebird carries the sky on his back. ~Henry David Thoreau



All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal. ~Thomas Szasz



The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ~Basho



Wedlock is a padlock. ~John Ray, English Proverbs



Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin



When freedom from want and freedom from fear are achieved, man's remains will be in rigor mortis. ~Martin H. Fischer



Fear cannot give us the adrenaline to push forward until we realize it is the fear in us that holds us back. ~J Beard, @promoterofpeace



Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath. ~Eve Glicksman Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? ~Will Rogers Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? ~Will Rogers



Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy



I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. ~George Robert Gissing



The overweight neurotic turned thin has mental weight she'll never lose. ~Terri Guillemets



Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design? ~Paracelsus