19001530 Quotes & Sayings

All of those stories are just tales told by people who lived lives before ours. What they say about humankind is true. — Brandon Sanderson

An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it. — Mason Cooley

My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood. — Joan Rivers

An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That's butterfly collecting. — Richard Lewontin

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice. — W. H. Auden

If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you're not an entrepreneur. — C. K. Prahalad

I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break. — Henry Rollins

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. — Don DeLillo

Don't put beets in the soup, Reshi," Bast said. "They're foul. — Patrick Rothfuss