If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'
When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it.
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.
We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.
When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.
We want only loyal workers who are grateful from the bottom of their hearts for the bread which we let them earn.
No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
On average, an individual doesn't have a powerful connection with more than four to six people, and that's just as true here in the U.S. as it is in China.
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times.
Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
It's sobering to think of the seventeen chief justices; certainly a solid majority of them have to be characterized as failures. The successful ones are hard to number.
When we go to a restaurant, they don't ask, 'Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?' They do ask, 'Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?'
