Barsotti Cartoons Quotes & Sayings

Trust is earned. Like gold. — George R R Martin

You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them. — Desmond Tutu

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Just because you don't see me doesn't mean I wasn't there — Rick Riordan

I had a dream once that Boughton and I were down at the river looking around in the shallows for something or other - when we were boys it would have been tadpoles - and my grandfather stalked out of the trees in that furious way he had, scooped his hat full of water, and threw it, so as sheet of water came sailing toward us, billowing in the air like a veil, and fell down over us. Then he put his hat back on his head and stalked off into the trees again and left us standing there in that glistening river, amazed at ourselves and shining like the apostles. I mention his because it seems to me transformations just that abrupt do occur in this life, and they occur unsought and unawaited, and they beggar your hopes and your deserving. This came to my mind as I was reflecting on the day I first say your mother, that blessed, rainy Pentecost — Marilynne Robinson

It is the impulse of science to try to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage. — Jonathan Kozol

Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you. — Thomas Pynchon

As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment. — Edgar Saltus

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted. — Terry Pratchett

The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and the quantity of practice time. — Michael Griffin

The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where there can be a melting pot. — Asma Jahangir

In fact, NASA doesn't use the F-word; instead, they call failure "early attempts at success. — Mike Myers

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation. — Vera Nazarian