Goducks Quotes & Sayings

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe. — Dee Dee Myers

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity. — E. M. Forster

Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know. — Robert Jordan

Perimeter greatly reduced the pressure to launch on warning at the first sign of an American attack. It gave Soviet leaders more time to investigate the possibility of a false alarm, confident that a real attack would trigger a computer-controlled, devastating response. But it rendered American plans for limited war meaningless; the Soviet computers weren't programmed to allow pauses for negotiation. And the deterrent value of Perimeter was wasted. Like the doomsday machine in Dr. Strangelove, the system was kept secret from the United States. — Eric Schlosser

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow? — Richard Adams

By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him. — Mahatma Gandhi

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play. — Howard Bloom

Letting someone touch you in the place where it hurts the most, if I could do that, if I could just do that, well, that would mean I was alive. — Benjamin Alire Saenz