Menampilkan Database Quotes & Sayings

Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been speakers and writers who embody Einstein's injunction to 'remember your humanity and forget the rest.' It would be immodest to claim membership in this fraternity/sorority, but I hope not to have done anything to outrage it. Despite the idiotic sneer that such principles are 'fashionable,' it is always the ideas of secularism, libertarianism, internationalism, and solidarity that stand in need of reaffirmation. — Christopher Hitchens

From here I can say that I am Prisoner... where!?
Prisoner in school... with this new system you are prison... so my number is 2442 and what's yours? — Deyth Banger

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there. — John Ratzenberger

The gods my protectors.
[Lat., Di me tuentur.] — Horace

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot

Moke Kupihea has the strength of conviction necessary to impart to the world a more sensitive account of Hawaiian kahuna heritage, which comes down to him from the priesthood line from which he descends. — Rubellite Kawena Johnson

When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble? — Adam Smith

To be what you have always wanted to be, act on your dreams. — Debasish Mridha

[ ... ]no one can do an injury to you without doing an injury to themselves. — David Adams Richards

What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else ... — Barack Obama

Let me tell you about love. Love is a kind of madness and you would follow it anywhere, you don't care. — Elizabeth Brundage

What is BFR?" asked Pete Starling. For the graph's vertical scale was labeled thus. "Bolide Fragmentation Rate," Doob said. "The rate at which new rocks are being produced." "Is that a standard term?" Pete wanted to know. His tone was not so much hostile as unnerved. "No," Doob said, "I made it up. Yesterday. On the plane." He was tempted to add something like I am allowed to coin terms but didn't want things to get snarky this early in the meeting. — Neal Stephenson