Cotrina Norris Quotes & Sayings

It is interesting that this thoroughness, which is a virtue, is often misunderstood. When someone says a thing has been done scientifically, often all he means is that it has been done thoroughly. I have heard people talk of the "scientific" extermination of the Jews in Germany. There was nothing scientific about it. It was only thorough. There was no question of making observations and then checking them in order to determine something. In that sense, there were "scientific" exterminations of people in Roman times and in other periods when science was not so far developed as it is today and not much attention was paid to observation. In such cases, people should say "thorough" or "thoroughgoing," instead of "scientific. — Richard Feynman

Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat. — Christopher Moore

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race. — Goldwin Smith

The fire was barely fifteen minutes old. What followed was a series of fatal errors that set the fire free and doomed the city to a fiery death. — Jim Murphy

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men. — Tom Robbins

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. — Robert Burns

There are many things that I don't understand. — Billy Graham

Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily. — Agatha Christie

So, blind to Someone I must be. — Walter De La Mare

The Muslim community is completely fractured - it doesn't really exist anymore; the only place it does exist is online. — Reza Aslan

You taste like the last drop of whiskey
at 3 am
after a lousy day
like the first gulp of coffee on a Monday sipped behind a desk
hot and bitter
like the burning at the back of the throat
after the first cigarette
You taste, boy oh boy, like my next mistake. — Malak El Halabi

I don't have a strategy. I am my own person. So if people disagree with the opinion of my father and want to dislike me because I'm his daughter, then I'm probably not going to be able to discourage them from that. — Ivanka Trump

Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava. — Frederick Lenz

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche. — Germaine Greer