Infested Strongbox Quotes & Sayings

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it, — Jack Granatstein

I wrote to you months ago and you sent him here on an errand about water fountains."
"He said you loved water fountains. — Melina Marchetta

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction? — Friedrich Nietzsche

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so. — Bertrand Russell

We got a plague of people, a disease of people infesting the world. We got more people who are living longer. Less people have to be born, that's the answer. We got death control - we got to match it with birth control. — Harry Harrison

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history. — Len Deighton

See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands,
And justifies himself with lifted hands.
Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes,
Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries. — John Bunyan

Behind all of the "I can'ts" are merely "I won'ts." The "I won'ts" mean "I am afraid to" or "I am ashamed to" or "I have too much pride to try, for fear I might fail." Behind that is anger at ourselves and circumstances engendered by pride. — David R. Hawkins

Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their neural pathways have become set ... the longer neural pathways have been running one way the harder it is to rewire them. — Howard Gardner

Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought. — Theognis Of Megara

But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not be confused with escape. And take these poems along for good luck! — Robert Graves

I sing everywhere. I have a very patient husband. He says he doesn't mind. But we've only been married a year and a half! — Anne Hathaway

There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain. Shaded with trees and leaves like a piggy bank filled with memories. You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur ... the pure murmuring of life. — Juan Rulfo