Barbara Ann Mikulski Quotes & Sayings

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources. — Immanuel Kant

A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits — Richard M. Nixon

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job. — Mark Kelly

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia. — Keith Waterhouse

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression. — V.S. Naipaul

Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure. — Marilyn Monroe

As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high — Franz Beckenbauer

What stopped you? Why didn't you help her?" [Naji]
"Cause you're my friend," I said. [Ananna]
All the hardness in his features melted away. "Oh. — Cassandra Rose Clarke

This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly. — Lancelot Hogben

There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all ... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain ... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment. — Francisco Varela

You don't know what's going to happen in the end, and that's what the best plays are. — Katori Hall

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration. — Nicholas Culpeper

If the defendant be a man of straw, who is to pay the costs? — Charles Dickens

It's always my impulse to ignore the bad, to run toward the good. — Taylor Jenkins Reid