Claudius Ptolemaeus Quotes & Sayings

In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip. — John Updike

When we pray with our hearts and our souls I think we are being heard. — John Assaraf

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after — Mona Simpson

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists. — Richard Engel

Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs. — Bill Halter

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue. — Ayn Rand

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write. — Colm Toibin

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude. — Jon Meacham

The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives. — Teller

Meditation is the way we realize the nature of the mind. — Thubten Yeshe

In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground. — John Steinbeck

I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better. — Nicole Holofcener

The self-assertive shrillness of protest arises because the facts of incommensurability ensure that protestors can never win an argument; the indignant self-righteousness of protest arises because the facts of incommensurability ensure equally that the protestors can never lose an argument either. Hence the utterance of protest is characteristically addressed to those who already share the protestors' premises. The effects of incommensurability ensure that protestors rarely have anyone else to talk to but themselves. This is not to say that protest cannot be effective; it is to say that it cannot be rationally effective and that its dominant modes of expression give evidence of a certain perhaps unconscious awareness of this. The — Alasdair MacIntyre