Berkebile Hand Quotes & Sayings

The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks. — Robert Green Ingersoll

There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world. — Richard P. Feynman

The power of the legislative, being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands. — John Locke

Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the same fate awaits those who believe those promises. — Paulo Coelho

Water: 35 liters, Carbon: 20 kg, Ammonia: 4 liters, Lime:1.5 kg, Phosphrus: 800 g, salt: 250g, saltpeter:100g, Sulfer: 80g, Fluorine: 7.5 g, iron: 5.6 g, Silicon: 3g, and 15 other elements in small quantities ... thats the total chemical makeup of the average adult body. Modern science knows all of this, but there has never been a single example of succesful human trasmutation. It's like there's some missing ingredient ... Scientists have been trying to find it for hundreds of years, pouring tons of money into research, and to this day they don't have a theory. For that matter, the elements found in a human being is all junk that you can buy in any market with a child's allowence. Humans are pretty cheaply made. — Hiromu Arakawa

I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me. — Khaled Hosseini

Attracted to one of the Silent?
His mouth set in a grim line. He'd cut off his own balls before he accepted that. — Nalini Singh

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger. — Honore De Balzac

Compassion is the basis of morality. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. — Kathleen Hanna

If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that mathematicians however say that two plus two still equals four. — Susan Jacoby

Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious. — Tom Cotton