Ildefons Cerda Quotes & Sayings

The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air. — Theodore Gordon

Physico-chemical reductionism in biology is the orthodox view, and any resistance to it is regarded as not only scientifically but politically incorrect. But for a long time I have found the materialist account of how we and our fellow organisms came to exist hard to believe, including the standard version of how the evolutionary process works. The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes.2 — Thomas Nagel

A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, he's up!" — Tony Evans

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. — Douglas MacArthur

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases. — Walter Lippmann

What I cannot know by reason, I can know by simply believing. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Breathless waltzes have only ever led girls into trouble. — Sarah MacLean

My game is like a cross between karaoke and rap: crap. — Nick Faldo

To devote any time and thought to a rival is to diminish one's worth. I had my dignity. — Laura Rahme