1859 Half Dollar Quotes & Sayings

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits. — K. Eric Drexler

Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compromised gospel produces people that lack understanding — Sunday Adelaja

There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized. — Zoe Heller

If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. — Edward R. Tufte

Getting into Heaven is not something you can earn or deserve. God makes that really clear in the scriptures. — Kirk Cameron

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail. — Jo Walton

Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom. — Andre Gide

To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace. — Chris Raschka

Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted threads of talk at crowded cocktail parties; snatches of poems heard as a radio dial spins through its arc; incomplete commandments reclaimed from shattered stones. — Dexter Palmer

For the love of Mary, I get it, she's got a nifty twat. Tell me what I need to know and you can go up there and try'n get back into it. — Glen Duncan