A master was explaining the nature of Tao to one of his novices. 'The Tao is embodied in all software regardless of how insignificant,' said the master. 'Is Tao in a hand-held calculator' asked the novice. 'It is,' came the reply. 'Is the Tao in a video game' continued the novice. 'It is even in a video game,' said the master. 'And is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer' The master coughed and shifted his position slightly. 'The lesson is over for today,' he said.
Quotes about and (16 Quotes)
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often ... 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
'And we'll watch and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film.' Wouldn't that be extraordinary We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay rot.
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. 'And relationships,' he had told her, 'contained the essential meaning of life.'
Quoting Seneca Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, 'and these,' said she, 'are my jewels.'
'I think you're begging the question,' said Haydock, 'and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that'
Come unto these yellow sands, 'And then take hands Curtsied when you have, and kissed - The wild waves whist.
'I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us,' Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, 'and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star.'That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, 'What writest thou' The vision raised its head, And with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, 'The names of those who love the Lord.' 'And is mine one' said Abou. 'Nay not so.' Replied the angel, Abou spoke more low, But clearly still, and said, 'I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.' The angel wrote and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed. And lo Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
Let the moment go.... Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an 'and' when you're back to 'or' makes the 'or' mean more than it did before.... Now I understand And it's time to leave the woods.
In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to see, his ears hear what he ought to hear and his heart understands what he ought to understand. 'And what he ought to see, hear and understand is trutheternal truthand then practice it. That is conversion,' he wrote.
Beefy face an' grubby 'and --
Law!
It was all very well to say, 'Drink me,' but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. 'No, I'll look first,' she said, 'and see whether it's marked 'Poison' or not.' For she had read several nice little stories about children who had got burnt and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long, and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds. And she had never forgotten that if you drink too much from a bottle marked 'Poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
'Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea' 'And if you were my wife, I would drink it'
A hypocritical Boston tycoon once told Mark Twain, 'Before I die I mean to make a pilgrimage to the top of Mount Sinai in the Holy Land and read the Ten Commandments aloud.' 'Why don't you stay right home in Boston,' suggested Twain, 'and keep them.