Ctihodna Quotes & Sayings

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

My passion drives me on. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for him to bring forward evidence in support of his contention. The burden of proof evidently lies on him; it is not for me to prove that no such beings exist before my non-belief is justified, but for him to prove that they do exist before my belief can be fairly claimed. Similarly, it is for the affirmer of God's existence to bring evidence in support of his affirmation; the burden of proof lies on him. — Annie Besant

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin. — Peter Forsyth

In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just didn't know if I had any gift or voice and I had no confidence about it. — Rashida Jones

Life for delays and doubts no time does give,
None ever yet made haste enough to live. — Abraham Cowley

The secret to getting ahead is getting started. — Mark Twain

Now it's the age for the translator. It's the age for the bridge builder. It's the age for Velcro. It's the age for Lego. It's the age for combining what we already have into what we need. — Van Jones

Just when you needed the sun most, an uninvited cloud may come and cover your sun! Welcome to life, my friend! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Memory is elastic, and no two people have the same version of any given event. Our versions of our own lives are necessarily fictional to some degree, wouldn't you agree? — Lisa Unger

There's a wire injected under my skin a few days before an event and connected to that is a wireless transmitter. That device communicates my blood-glucose levels to the receiver unit, which is mounted above my steering wheel. — Charlie Kimball

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise. — Mahatma Gandhi

Science is a powerful tool, but like any tool, it doesn't care whether it hurts you. Fire warms us, cooks our food, protects us from predators, but it will burn us if we let it. Fire is more than happy to eat us all alive. Science is fire writ large. — Mira Grant

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. — W. Daniel Hillis