Life Quotes

In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it was already good before scripture said so, then it was good for some reason inherent to itself, some reason...

Tamim Ansary

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Frank Herbert

Good manners are not merely snobbish ornaments, as Mrs. Lippett's regime appeared to believe. They mean self-discipline and thought for others, and my children have got to learn them.

Jean Webster

Science could potentially do a better job explaining the meaning of life if scientists devise experiments that can weed out the best answers from the worst. The principle difference between religion and science is as follows: the religious make stuff...

G.M. Jackson

Unlike modern pills, these hard antimony pills didn’t dissolve in the intestines, and the pills were considered so valuable that people rooted through fecal matter to retrieve and reuse them. Some lucky families even passed down laxatives from fath...

Sam Kean

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

Arthur Miller

The army is the only order of men sufficiently united to concur in the same sentiments, and powerful enough to impose them on the rest of their fellow-citizens; but the temper of soldiers, habituated at once to violence and to slavery, renders them v...

Edward Gibbon

We only pass everything by like a transposition of air.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Paranoia is acceptable in the new friendship paradigm. Worrying that your best employees or customers might leave is ok, as long as you put in place an active strategy to offset any possibility of that scenario.

Kevin Kelly

An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.

Life

A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind

Life

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

Life

It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.

Frank Herbert

Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.

Hans Jürgen Eysenck

You can't trust quotes on this site. They don't require sources, and many things are misattributed.

Mark Twain

She was aware that reason had left the room. She was not sorry to see it go.

Life

For many, it's a once-in-a-lifetime, long dreamed-of and longed-saved-for trip. Pennies have been pinched and sacrifices made to make the vacation a reality. All Guests' wallets will be separated from a great deal of money, like trout expertly fillet...

Leslie Le Mon

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

Diane Ravitch

I am using the word as a scientist means it: a set of ideas so well established by observations and physical models that it is essentially indistinguishable from fact. That is different from the colloquial use that means "guess." To a scientist, you ...

Philip Plait

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

Idries Shah