Courses Hero Quotes & Sayings

He felt everything - pride in his competence and leadership during the Second World War, pride in his noble intransigence during the Cold War, intellectual pleasure in what he called the "technically sweet" conception of the H-bomb, self-disgust that he could feel such pleasure in so monstrous a creation - but could decide on nothing. Brilliance of this scattershot type effectively disqualifies a man from political decision-making. Oppenheimer was simply not the sort of man a nation can entrust with its fate. — Algis Valiunas

No person can grow rich in spiritual experience or can gain an intimate acquaintance with a God of purity and truth without negating the easy ways of instinct, the low pursuits of life which end in self, the habits of thought and action which limit and hamper the realization of the diviner possibilities of the whole nature. — Rufus M. Jones

That's what I'm gonna do: quit gradually ... I'm gonna lose one lung; little while later I'm gonna lose the other one. — Bill Hicks

The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country. — Michael Chertoff

So one of my core themes in The Myth of Male Power - that history's controlling force was not patriarchy, but survival - is still ignored. Instead, the leading universities' women's studies and "gender studies" courses still emanate from the Marxist and Civil Rights model of oppressor vs. oppressed. We'll see in this book exactly why the dichotomy of oppressor/oppressed is both inaccurate and, more important, undermines love and women's empowerment. In virtually every leading university this leads to a demonizing of men and masculinity that distorts the very essence of traditional masculinity - being socialized to be a hero by being willing to sacrifice oneself in war or in work. The possibility that being socialized to be disposable is not genuine power is, to this day, either considered radical, heretical, or, most frequently, not considered. — Warren Farrell

Like my brain cells. I find they come in handy when I ... oh, I don't know ... think. — Katie McGarry

I will not have a sea creature destroyed, if I can help it. And I can help it. — Rick Riordan

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs? — Nikolai Gogol

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one. — Agnes Sanford

Because I love you." Saying the words released the pressure around her chest. She'd never said those words to a man before. Not even Sam. She'd loved — Katie Reus

Skulduggery tilted his head. "Do you have a car?" "Nope." "Then we'll take mine." "Probably wise. I think I've forgoten how to drive. — Derek Landy

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family. — Tony Perez

If you're seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You're just fighting different kinds of battles - — Sam Smith

He will fence with his own shadow. — William Shakespeare