Kapaun Air Quotes & Sayings

The principle of [divine] purpose ... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks ... The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered. — Ernst Boris Chain

She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris. — Gustave Flaubert

The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author. — Isobelle Carmody

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. — Elihu Root

When we talk about climate, we need to do everything we can to set the stage before the actors come on. And they may only have one chance at success. We should keep thinking: How do we maximize that chance of success? — David Titley

With a mighty mind, you can conquer every mountain. — Lailah Gifty Akita

[T]o teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them. — Roger Scruton

To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell. — Eliphas Levi

You never know what attracts people to each other, — Elizabeth Strout

Viola had a smile that could make the heavens open. She also had a frown of such scorn, it could send a man straight to hell. — Laura Lee Guhrke

I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States? ... The vice president has two duties: One is to break a tie in case of a tie vote in the United States Senate .. the other is to inquire daily as to the health of the president. Neither one of those are very challenging as compared with living a good part of time in the state of Arizona. — John McCain

If you picked up the Life of Frank movie case at Scarecrow Video, the best review on the back would just say, 'Meh. — Lish McBride

But man should abstain from judging his innocently cruel fellow creatures, for even if nature sometimes "shrieks against his creed", what pain does he himself not inflict upon the living creatures that he hunts for pleasure and not for food? — Konrad Lorenz

Too late... everything's always too late. — E. M. Forster

With a shrug and a blink, the policeman moved past Will, shaking his head and muttering something under his breath about swearing off the gin before he truly started seeing things. Will stepped aside to let the man pass, then raised his voice to a shout: James Carstairs! Jem! Where are you, you disloyal bastard? — Cassandra Clare