Erves Quotes & Sayings

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive. — Eric Fischl

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration — Milan Kundera

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known. — Lewis Thomas

Sometimes the little things in life mean the most. — Ellen Hopkins

Perhaps ... I could not be content with mere contentment! — Angela Carter

In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out. — Alain Ducasse

Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property-so long as the state res ... erves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property. — Leonard Peikoff