Terlon Quotes & Sayings

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others. — Mohamed ElBaradei

We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death. — John Desmond Bernal

No debt, no borrowing. There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. — Henrik Ibsen

Tis true, that We are here a mix'd People--of different Countries Dialects, and Denominations. But how ridiculous it is, to carry any Nationality Prejudice, or Bias about Us in these Respects. We ought to leave them all behind Us in the Ocean and consider ourselves as one Great family--pursue one General Interest and banish all Selfishness, Bigotry--Narrow Spiritedness, and Atachments, whether it arises from Motives of Religion, Custom--or Habit--for these are Great follies, and very wide of the Christian Temper. — Charles Woodmason

Is it really conceivable, given all of that immensity, all that structure, that we are truly alone? That life emerged here, and nowhere else? — Stephen Baxter

Anything is within reach with God's grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Really?" Mister Sun said. "You killed a man with the same knife you use to make brunch, and you're suddenly squeamish about a hammer. — Warren Ellis

I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable. — Tom Scholz

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way. — Loretta Lynn

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. — Warren Buffett

The number one question I'm asked as a YouTuber every day is, 'How can I get my videos out there; how can I make my videos go viral?' — Todrick Hall

In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern. He was applying to a modern thinker - the inventor of analytic geometry, no less - a primitive tradition that extends back not only to the institutionalization of Christianity in the fourth century, when Christians first broke into the tombs of saints to gather relics, but farther still, beyond the horizon of recorded history. The request is all the stranger for the fact that the man whose remains were treated in this quasisaintlike way would go down in history as the progenitor of materialism, rationalism, and a whole tradition that looked on such veneration as nonsense. — Russell Shorto