Tobadonijah Quotes & Sayings

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore. — Nathan Wolfe

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light. — George Bernard Shaw

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. — Alberto Giacometti

I'd like to pet that jungle cat, rub his silky fur and make him purr ... I slapped myself mentally. Jungle cat? Make him purr? What was wrong with me tonight? — Ilsa Madden-Mills

I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them. I think if journalists start doing that then they won't be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won't be practicing satire. — Adam Gopnik

Everything he'd learned said it wasn't normal to hunger for a human. And yet, with a near brutal intensity, he hungered for this one. — Lucian Bane

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain. — Hippocrates

The reason a person is a republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that's science - that's neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican. — Janeane Garofalo

But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything. — Oscar Wilde

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between the present generation and future generations. — Niall Ferguson

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. — Gerald Brenan

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be. — Mahatma Gandhi

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth. — Michael Landon

This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox