Sheila Jasanoff Quotes & Sayings

The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown. — Brigitte Bardot

Peppermint Patty's team is short a glove, so I'm walking over to lend them mine."
"You're kidding! Don't you think they're taking advantage of you?"
"No, I'm doing it because I want to do it."
"What are you, some kind of mystic?! — Charles M. Schulz

Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation. — Francois Hollande

Nothing is the truer than the Truth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose. — Charles Kimball

Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle. — O. Henry

My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. — Robert Woodrow Wilson

I was always a stranger at home, in all the places I ever lived. — Lionel Fisher

This is the debt I pay
Just for one riotous day,
Years of regret and grief,
Sorrow without relief.
Pay it I will to the end
Until the grave, my friend,
Gives me a true release
Gives me the clasp of peace.
Slight was the thing I bought,
Small was the debt I thought,
Poor was the loan at best
God! but the interest! — Paul Laurence Dunbar

Who are you talking to?"
"Myself."
"You do that a lot."
"I know. I'm the only one who understands me. — Kasie West

None of us knows the wisdom of the Lord. We do not know in advance exactly how He would get us from where we are to where we need to be, but He does offer us broad outlines in our patriarchal blessings. We encounter many bumps, bends, and forks in the road of life that leads to the eternities. — James E. Faust

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses. — John Piper