Nongovernmental International Panel Quotes & Sayings

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass. — James Gunn

And swell not thy cheek (for pride) at men, nor walk in insolence through the earth; for Allah loveth not any arrogant boaster. — Anonymous

I can be greedy, desirous or an irritating materialist, but again, I am not a stupid. — M.F. Moonzajer

A lady decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather. — George Egerton

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand. — George Eliot

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from?
[Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?] — Honore De Balzac

As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy. — May-Britt Moser

Speculation was now news. News had been confused with fact. Fact had been replaced by expert opinion. People had been replaced by their biographies. Ability had been replaced by disability. Thinking had been replaced by psychology. History had been reduced to story. And while the news media pumped out a new story every week on things that could kill you, Hollywood simultaneously created stories that showed that everything could be prevailed over. Meaning, he said, was so malleable that it could be turned inside out, and no one would know the difference - and it would - and, just like the universe that had expanded to its maximum size, everything that had ever been would happen in reverse and revert back to its original form until existence would disappear without leaving a trace of itself as the Big Bang backfired. — John M. Keller

I have no desire to prolong uncertainty. — Clifton Webb

What is odious but ... people ... who toast their feet on the register ... — Marsilio Ficino