Scourer Machine Quotes & Sayings

There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself. — Lee Smolin

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil. — Mahatma Gandhi

What was new to our ears these days, and thrilling to hear, was the steadiness and justice of those who spoke, the abscence of panic and exaggeration the quiet insistence on legal processes as opposed to trial by suspicion. McCarthyism so repelled the English that they take special care not to be infected by it. — Martha Gellhorn

When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu — Guy Verhofstadt

When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from it's fellows. — Stephen King

As a girl, I used to believe that I could see and taste the air. I was TOLD that was impossible and forgot how to do so. — Silver RavenWolf

We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms our sense of omnipresence as well as the validity of the material world. — Fred Ritchin

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. — Mark Twain

Get more competition into the New Hampshire marketplace, and then we'll find that there will be insurers that will compete on convenience as compared to cost. — Ann McLane Kuster

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. — Zeno Of Elea

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm. — Daphne Gottlieb