Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFor the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
More Barrington Moore, Jr. Quotes
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Still, I wrote. Even when the police where coming. Even when my whole body hurt, and the slightest sound would make me quake.
GEMMA IVERSEN -
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.
BOOTH TARKINGTON -
Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.
MICHAEL FARADAY -
Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic.
B. R. AMBEDKAR -
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL -
Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.
BILLY CAMPBELL -
I wish happiness for each soul but much more for those to whom life hasn’t been fair at all.
SHILPA GOEL -
I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.
ABI MORGAN -
The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
BILLY GIBBONS -
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
BILL NYE -
Learn to let go of everything which already let go of you.
TERRY HARRIS -
And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I’ve always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.
AI-JEN POO -
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER -
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
JOHN GREEN -
I always left her presence with the sense that she truly knew what she was talking about but that she never felt the need to browbeat you with it,
ADRIENNE MALOOF