Die Leiden Des Jungen Werthers Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there. — Drew Goddard

This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom, whereby quote The Intensity of a desire D is inversely proportional to the ease of D's gratification. Known also as Romance. — David Foster Wallace

To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years. — Donald Cram

Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves. — Benjamin Spock

For real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends. — Doris Lessing

Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness? — A.P.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried. — Charles Hamilton Houston

And one clouded stream that never ran dry was that choked with the scum of humanism, the poison spewed out by the factory at its headwaters. There it was: its lights burning brilliantly as it worked even through the night - the factory of Western European ideals. The pollution from that factory degraded the exalted fervor to kill; it withered the green of the sakaki's leaves. — Yukio Mishima