Schoenbergs Quotes & Sayings

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things. — John Bolton

And for a moment I though I would tell her, that it would be the easiest and the slightest thing imaginable- that after all, if anyone would understand it, she would. That I need only say, 'I am in love, Helen! I am in love! There is a girl so rare and marvelous and strange, and- Helen, she has all my life in her! — Sarah Waters

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory. — Erwin Schrodinger

while its in the future it can never be in the present — Colin Urquhart

The jester is brother to the sage. — Arthur Koestler

so that I came to regard it as at least a bearable place to hibernate till one might really live again. — H.P. Lovecraft

When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with. — Laurence Sterne

Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way. — David Fincher

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states. — Burke Marshall

Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of "A man's a man for 'a that," than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian. — Robert Green Ingersoll

What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding. — Jan Chipchase

Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture]. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life ... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody. — Ruskin Bond

On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction. — Craig Groeschel

Authentic power is a new potential of this expanded perceptual system that we are all being given as a gift. — Gary Zukav