Goldschmidt Conference Quotes & Sayings

Okay," I said slowly, "but what the hell would you mate a horse with to get a unicorn, because I don't see horses and narwhales doing the dirty boogie. — Jonathan Maberry

What is lawful, what is unlawful?" asked Ku Yuan, prince and poet of Chu. "This country is a slough of despond! Nothing is pure any longer! Informers are exalted! And wise men of gentle birth are without renown!"3 — Karen Armstrong

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. — Alan W. Watts

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin

The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure. — Joan D. Chittister

People who follow Jesus, though, are no longer typical - God is constantly inviting them into a life that moves away from typical. — Bob Goff

Fortune's a right whore:
If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,
That she may take away all at one swoop. — John Webster

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule. — Jules Michelet

Record what you can, pursue your passions, connect with the world, fight the good fight, defy evil, shine incandescently as best you can. And it doesn't matter what field it's in but, it does matter that we leave something that accumulates over time. — Stefan Molyneux

To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you're close enough to squeeze through. — Pierre Omidyar