Boombot Cool Quotes & Sayings

Occam's razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth. — Karen Marie Moning

According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth. — Benjamin Whichcote

Lord Jesus, I pray thee, grant me grace, that I may never set my heart on the things of this, but that all worldly and carnal affections may utterly die and be mortified in me. Grant me above all things that I may rest in thee, and finally quiet and pacify my heart in thee. — Catherine Parr

If you hate the war, that's fine. But you should still support the troops. They don't get to pick where they're deployed. They just gave the American people a blank check for anything up to and including the value of their lives, and the least everyone else can do is be thankful. Buy them dinner. Mow their yard. Bake them cookies. — Chris Kyle

We will never have a world free of violence until we teach our children to carry peace in their hearts, not guns in their hands. — Donna Marie Merritt

As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege. — Abraham Lincoln

The readers of Isabel's journal were affected by the conversations within its covers-if nothing else, the livingroom of their moral imagination became bigger. And this must surely have some bearing on the way they dealt with the world, even in the small transactions of life: awareness of the pain of others here, a word of comfort there. Of course, the admission of kindness to one's life did not spring from any contimplation of the views of Hobbes (selfish Hobbes) and Hume (the good, generous Davey), but it did no harm to know about all of that. And that was where philosophy really did count: it set out the major choices behind all of those practical day-to-day questions of charity and understanding and simple decency; it was the weatherthe backdrop against which those practical matters were debated. — Alexander McCall Smith

The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won. — Eric Schmidt

I know that my books are worthy, which is separate from me. — Toni Morrison