Matvey Levenstein Quotes & Sayings

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

There was a time when we were told ... that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members ... This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience. — Alexander Hamilton

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. — Primo Levi

In science, every question answered leads to 10 more. I love that science can never, ever be finished. From a young age, people think, 'Science is hard and boring.' We don't tell children, 'Yes, you have to learn these formulae and theorems, but then you go on to learn about nuclear reactions and stars.' — Elise Andrew

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. — Northrop Frye

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame. — Ashleigh Brilliant

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight. — Ernie Isley

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way. — John Shelby Spong

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. — Gustave Flaubert

This aggression will not stand. With these words, George Bush committed the United States to the liberation of the oil-rich Kingdom of Kuwait, after it had been occupied by the Republic of Iraq in August of 1990. — George H. W. Bush

You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell howl! — Carry A. Nation

If you make a product good enough ... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway. — William Randolph Hearst