Gud Night Friends Quotes & Sayings

The labor leader Samuel Gompers had long considered the production of cigars in unsanitary tenements "one of the most dreadful, cancerous sores" on the city of New York. Realizing — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm. — Louis MacNeice

The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people can govern themselves. — Keith Ellison

Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world. — Silvia Tennenbaum

But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it. — Thomas Hobbes

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be. — Jamie Foxx

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns. — Marie Lu

Science is the global civilization of which I am a citizen. The spread of its democratic ethic and its unifying powers provides my faith in humanity. The astonishing depths of wonders in the universe, continuously revealed by science is my temple. The capacity of the informed human mind, liberated at last by the understanding that we are alone and thus the sole stewards of earth, is my religion. The potential of humanity to turn this planet into a paradise for future generations is my afterlife. — E. O. Wilson

It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum. — Temple Grandin

But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology. — Stephen Jay Gould

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics. — Carl Lewis

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion. — G.K. Chesterton

When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'. — Dolly Parton

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do. — Lemony Snicket