Iznenadne Nesvestice Quotes & Sayings

As a character in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, set in 1876, remarks, "Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. — Tim Wu

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel. — George Santayana

When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy. — Dominique Moceanu

There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well. — Iain S. Thomas

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. — Albert Einstein

I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayor — Louisa May Alcott

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you. — Tippi Hedren

My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull. — Annie Dillard