Ice Age Famous Quotes & Sayings

Look for Buddha outside your own mind,
and Buddha becomes the devil. — Dogen

A need, a need, a need have I
A wish, a wish, a wish, I sigh — Shannon Hale

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man! — Jules Verne

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example, two of them: mere insatiable curiosity and the desire to do good. The latter is put high above the former, and yet it is the former that moves one of the most useful men the human race has yet produced: the scientific investigator. What actually urges him on is not some brummagem idea of Service, but a boundless, almost pathological thirst to penetrate the unknown, to uncover the secret, to find out what has not been found out before. His prototype is not the liberator releasing slaves, the good Samaritan lifting up the fallen, but a dog sniffing tremendously at an infinite series of rat-holes. — H.L. Mencken

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another — Hesiod

I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings. — Dan Webster

I've always had this feeling," Henry says, "that all dogs are really therapy dogs. — Meg Donohue

The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to the Republic or the cause of free institutions, and fear of additional taxation ought not to change a proper policy in this regard. — William Howard Taft

God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It's up to you, Toby, always. But I suppose it comes down to whether you think dominance and submission are about acts or about people." He was quiet for a moment. "I guess I think . . . power is where you put it. — Alexis Hall

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker. — Joni Mitchell

... on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries. — Louisa May Alcott

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist. — Pola Negri

All drunks, particularly those who grew up in alcoholic homes, have that same sense of angst and trepidation, one that has no explainable origins. The fear is not necessarily self-centered, either. It's like watching someone point a revolver at his temple while he cocks and dry-fires the mechanism, over and over again, until the cylinder rotates a loaded chamber into firing position. — James Lee Burke