18066 Quotes & Sayings

Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic. — Rachel Cohn

When I came to Harvard, I was debating between math and science, and I guess I thought in the end I wanted something that could connect to the real world. I liked puzzle-solving and connections. — Lisa Randall

There's nothing as powerful as a made-up mind! — Susan Jeffers

Strong drink has agitated the town since its founding. Almost its first organization was a temperance society. Its founders had three anathemas, irreligion, slavery and intemperance. They thought they had barred alcohol forever by incorporating in all deeds the proviso that if intoxicating drinks were made or sold on the premises, the land would revert to the college. The clause was never legally invoked, and is probably invalid. — Earnest Elmo Calkins

So there you have it: two things & I can't bring them together & they are wrenching me apart. These two feelings, this knowledge of a world so awful, this sense of a life so extraordinary - how am I to resolve them? — Richard Flanagan

Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin. — Vladimir Putin

Sex is usually cleaner than a blood sacrifice. — Thomm Quackenbush

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds. — Oliver Sacks

When Jesus isn't our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills. — Mary E. DeMuth

I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching. — Fabiola Gianotti