Ostroga Quotes & Sayings

Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by atheists and agnostics than each other. — Wendy Kaminer

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way. — Helen Rowland

Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language. — Niels Bohr

And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation. — Henry Miller

He also said - pointedly - that space travel nowadays was an escape from the problems of Earth. That is, one took off for the stars in the hope that the worst would happen and be done with in one's absence. And indeed I couldn't deny that more than once I had peered anxiously out the porthole - especially when returning from a long voyage - to see whether or not our planet resembled a burnt potato. — Stanislaw Lem

Rather than compare yourself to others, compare your present progress with your potential. — William Cranch Bond

O Earth! all bathed with blood and years, yet never / Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers. — Madame De Stael

Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry. — Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The me that's here now has been brought up without any brothers or sisters. If I did have brothers or sisters I wouldn't be the me I am. So it's unnatural for the me that's here before you to think about what it'd be like to have brothers or sisters ... . — Haruki Murakami

Guilt was acid in our veins. It corroded everything. Our heart. Our lungs. Our throat. — Kat Zhang