Princess Megara Quotes & Sayings

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are. — Kurt Vonnegut

So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks. — Charles Spurgeon

It is chivalry that makes a true knight, not a sword. — George R R Martin

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. — Willard Van Orman Quine

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people. — Mark Udall

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain. — Bill Crawford

He was aware now of many things - of statecraft and profound consequences in the smallest decisions. Yet he felt this knowledge and subtlety as a thin veneer covering an iron core of simpler, more deterministic awareness. And that older core called out to him, pleaded with him for a return to cleaner values. — Frank Herbert

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past. Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation. — David Hume