Imponderable Questions Quotes & Sayings

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people. — Harold H. Greene

I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time. — Cameron Diaz

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself. — Michael Korda

A science can diagnose a cancer and can even find a cure for it, but it can't, and a scientist will be the first to say, it's can't help you to deal with the stress and disappointment and terror that comes with a diagnosis, and nor can it help you to die well, like Socrates, kindly, not railing against faith, but in possession of your own death. For these imponderable questions people have turned to mythos. — Karen Armstrong

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it. — Michael Crichton

If you'd cured Henry the Seventh's TB with a course of ethambutol, or given Isaac Newton an hour's access to the Hubble telescope, or shown an off-the-shelf 3-D printer to the regulars at the Captain Marlow in the 1980s, you would have had the M-word thrown your way, too. Some magic is merely normality that you're not yet used to. — David Mitchell

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb? — Trey Parker

And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted. — Brian Mulroney