Quotes & Sayings About Hiding Behind Anonymity

The compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves. — Lorrie Moore

I have seen the Raiders develop into what they are today. — Jim Otto

Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things. — Francis Bacon

Reading is the last act of secular prayer. — Richard Powers

[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once ... The time ... is of the order of two billion years ... Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles. — George Wald

It is play and only play that makes man complete. — Friedrich Schiller

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war. — Norman Schwarzkopf

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security. — Joe Biden