Dickes B Quotes & Sayings

I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life. — Ricky Gervais

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it. — Heraclitus

I suppose there's no way of putting the mushroom cloud back into that nice, shiny uranium sphere. — Isaac Asimov

While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling. — David Gelernter

Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the smallest measure has been accorded to woman, as a result of church teaching. The effect of this is seen in every department of life. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature". — Ian Gardner

Forty-three percent of highly qualified women with children are leaving careers, or "off-ramping", for a period of time. — Sheryl Sandberg

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. — Mason Cooley

We are contemplating the nature of desire," said Han Fei-tzu. "Whose desire?" she asked. "And for what?" My desire for your bones to heal and become strong, so that they don't snap at the slightest pressure. So that you could stand again, or even raise an arm without your own muscles tearing away chunks of bone or causing the bone to break under the tension. So that I wouldn't have to watch you wither away until now you weigh only eighteen kilograms. I never knew how perfectly happy we were until I learned that we could not stay together. "My desire," he answered. "For you. — Orson Scott Card

Quickly enough we feel and reckon up what we bear at the hands of others, but we reflect not how much others are bearing from us. — Thomas A Kempis

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book. — George Plimpton

When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds. — Aurora Aksnes

Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the universe - through literature, theology, aesthetics, art or music. — Eugenie Scott

ANSWER-JOBBER (A'NSWER-JOBBER) n.s.[from answer and jobber.]He that makes a trade of writing answers. What disgusts me from having any thing to do with answer-jobbers, is, that they have no conscience.Swift. — Samuel Johnson

The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books. — George Orwell