Norina Ocampo Quotes & Sayings

How can a prisoner plot his escape if he doesn't believe a world exists outside the prison walls? — Skye Jethani

Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove that the religious alternative is correct by default. When the sun was shown not to be the center of the universe, as Copernicus had proposed, the Earth was not moved back to that singular position in the cosmos. If Darwinian evolution is proved wrong, biologists will not develop a new theory based on the hypothesis that each species was created separately by God 6,000years ago. — Victor J. Stenger

Well," said Miss Ophelia, "do you think slavery right or wrong?"
"I'm not going to have any of your horrid New England directness, cousin," said St. Clare, gayly. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. — Susan Sontag

How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him? — Dennis Lehane

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world. — Thich Nhat Hanh

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction. — Loretta Chase

I live absolutely like an oyster. — Gustave Flaubert

Which comes first: Good or Evil? Usually evil. Good counters. — Steve Chapman

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care. — Cynthia Nixon