96761 Quotes & Sayings

I was deliberately trying to express how possible it might be for unmarried men and adults not blessed with biological children to become "fathers of choice." In an old-fashioned, traditional world, this might not matter. But I think that it's probably going to become terribly relevant as time goes on. — Mamoru Hosoda

Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and maintain their vigor. I have been forced to the conclusion that an over-emphasis of science weakens character and upsets life's essential balance. — Charles Lindbergh

Hey, if you can't fix it, let someone else fix it for you. — Melody Mayer

The city's all brightness
and shadow, deckle-edged, bluer than air-there's no help anywhere-you no longer know how to listen. — Ralph Angel

Like most people who actually live by a landlocked sound, bereft of hope of happiness, he had a particular aversion to any doctrines which left people without hope of happiness and told them that they lived by a landlocked sound. — Halldor Laxness

Fairness is one of the most significant traits in wisdom, the fairer you are, the wiser you become. — Pearl Zhu

Dude," Braeden said and bit down on his knuckle. "You've gotta tap that." I laughed. "Been there, done that." "Then I gotta tap that."
-Braeden & Romeo — Cambria Hebert

A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties. — Sam Simon

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart — Helen Keller

Occasionally at a Center Meeting, not that often, every couple of months, I'll break down and demonstrate a little mystical kundalini; but not that often, simply because it wouldn't be that effective. — Frederick Lenz

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with. — Ken Thompson

I wish that I could leave myself alone. I wish that I could finally feel that I punished myself enough. That I deserved time off for all my bad behavior. Let myself off the hook, drag myself off the rack where I am both torturer and torturee. — Carrie Fisher

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end. — Cees Nooteboom