Unwitting Tool Quotes & Sayings

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice. — Harold E. Varmus

But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not roll between them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places. (And the bed and the bar are, in their way, as public as the floor of Congress.) — Tim O'Brien

At the first sound of the drum, the revolutionary movement died down. The more active layers of the workers were mobilized. The revolutionary elements were thrown from the factories to the front. Severe penalties were imposed for striking. The workers' press was swept away. Trade unions were strangled. Hundreds of thousands of women, boys, peasants, poured into the workshops. The war - combined with the wreck of the International - greatly disoriented the workers politically, and made it possible for the factory administration, then just lifting its head, to speak patriotically in the name of the factories, carrying with it a considerable part of the workers, and compelling the more bold and resolute to keep still and wait. The revolutionary ideas were barely kept glowing in small and hushed circles. In the factories in those days, nobody dared to call himself "Bolshevik" for fear, not only of arrest, but of a beating from the backward workers. — Leon Trotsky

Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure. — Geena Davis

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas. — Bill Vaughan

If there is no smoking in heaven, I'm not interested — Mark Twain

But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code. — Richard Neal

And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits. — Czeslaw Milosz

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse. — Henry David Thoreau

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school. — Frank Zappa