Elucidative Quotes & Sayings

I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by the superabundance of his nothingness. — Emil Cioran

I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes. — Ron Paul

No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can. — Harvey MacKay

Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever — Eric Schmidt

A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition ... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet received the attention they deserve. — Willis Lamb

Right is its own defense. — Bertolt Brecht

That the authority of the nation-state itself depended largely on the economic independence and political neutrality of its civil servants becomes obvious in our time; the decline of nations has invariably started with the corruption of its permanent administration and the general conviction that civil servants are in the pay, not of the state, but of the owning classes. — Hannah Arendt

I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers. — Thomas Jane

There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man. — Joseph Conrad

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion. — Doris Lessing