Optavita Quotes & Sayings

Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds ... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring. — Joseph Epstein

The saddest moment as Prime Minister is writing letters to families who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan or those who we have tried to help in hostage situations but it hasn't worked out. — David Cameron

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic. — Victoria Glendinning

We'll all burn in hell for this," she said. "If there is a hell." "I didn't know my father caused this." "It's more complicated than that." "Is it? We're all guilty of someone else's sins until they become our own. Then — Peter Tieryas

Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet — Nicholas Stern

Doubtless, by definition, God was Reason itself. But would he also be "reasonable" [ ... ] — C.S. Lewis