Ulam Ideas Quotes & Sayings

I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian. — Giacomo Casanova

I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate ... — Stanislaw Ulam

The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work. — William Masters

Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race. — Jacques Barzun

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth. — Rod Dreher

If you want to change the world, be that change. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have a lot of internalised tantrums. I secretly hope the worst and then I start planning my little speech for the beginning of it. Showers are the worst - all the time in the shower I'm planning the next time I'm going to lose it at someone, and then I never actually do. You're almost let down when people are nice. — Jon Richardson

Once you start moving [market] lower, then you trigger of all sorts of things. You trigger people who have to sell because they're over-levered. So they sell their winners and their losers. They're just trying to raise cash. So, what you then get is spreading malaise throughout the global markets. — Mohamed El-Erian

The moment you think you have charisma, you are finished. — Riccardo Muti

She glared at him. "You're doing it again."
"What?"
"That thing that irritates me."
"Smiling?"
"Yes. That. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fashion is about change, don't you think? — Peter Lindbergh

I have been very lucky. I have always been able to eat and drink and dance in my life so I am not afraid of anything. And if suddenly I should have nothing I would still be grateful. — Micaela Flores Amaya