Reportedly Define Quotes & Sayings

Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

The heyday of spiritualism--with its seances and spirit communications zinging through the ether--coincided with the dawn of the electric age. The generation that so readily embraced spiritualism was the same generation that had been asked to accept such seeming witchery as electricity, telegraphy, radio waves, and telephonic communications--disembodied voices mysteriously travelling through space and emerging from a "receiver" hundreds of miles distant — Mary Roach

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three. — Hilaire Belloc

Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips. — Art Donovan

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile. — Conor McPherson

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Fate smiles to the bold — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am. — Garth Nix

Even if this is exaggerated, they are close to (enrichment ability) and the world faces a new reality. — Mark Fitzpatrick

I oppose U.S. military intervention in Iraq. I believe that we should not send troops or engage in air strikes-our nation's military involvement needs to be over. The United States has already spent billions of dollars in Iraq while our nation has endured a crumbling infrastructure, cuts to our social programs, a lack of investment in job training and creation, and sadly, a failure to take care of our veterans. Let's focus our resources at home. Over 4000 men and women have sacrificed their lives for Iraq. That is enough. — Janice Hahn

My argument is not that we must never intervene in nature. My argument is that there is a moral difference between intervention for the sake of health, to cure or prevent disease, and intervention for the sake of achieving a competitive edge for our kids in a consumer society. — Michael Sandel