Runabouts To Rockets Quotes & Sayings

A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause
and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative. — Joseph Sobran

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better. — Courtney B. Vance

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper. — Clifford Stoll

What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity. — Orison Swett Marden

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him. — William Osler

Ah yes, you like to cook, don't you?
well, i used to. you need real dedication. fresh ingredients, a discerning palate, an eye for presentation. it's not a modern art. good cooking has hardly evolved since the nineteenth century. — Haruki Murakami

Nothing is set in concrete the way it typically is when one is, for example, pouring concrete. — Matthew B. Crawford

When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.) — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've never been happy with the quality of my work. I always felt as though my musicianship was lacking and that I should have worked harder at it when I was younger. As I sang and sang, I improved. — Linda Ronstadt