Notify Nyc Quotes & Sayings

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place? — R.C. Sproul

No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy. — Benjamin Haydon

Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball. — St. Vincent

I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance. — Wladimir Klitschko

Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten — Peter Carey

The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery. — Thomas Jefferson

My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay. — Thomas Buchanan Read

The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents. — Ellen Ochoa

We have nothing to fear but insincerity. — Qiu Miaojin

Lexington, met the man who would inspire four long years of unrequited love on her part, she was thinking about fossils. She didn't have any — Sherry Thomas

Our universe, extending immensely far beyond our present horizon, may itself be just one member of a possibly infinite ensemble. This 'multiverse' concept, though speculative, is a natural extension of current cosmological theories, which gain credence because they account for things that we do observe. The physical laws and geometry could be different in other universes, and this offers a new perspective on the seemingly special values that the six numbers take in ours. — Martin J. Rees