Verkaik Torch Quotes & Sayings

Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate ... He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh ... Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves. — Ezra Klein

If the world had ever been in a state in which no change whatever was taking place, how could it pass from this state to one of change? The absolutely unchanging, especially when it has been in this state from eternity, cannot possibly get out of such a state by itself and pass over into a state of motion and change. An initial impulse must have therefore come from outside [ ... ] But as everyone knows, the "initial impulse" is only another expression for God. — Friedrich Engels

I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience. — William Shakespeare

I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue. — Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity. — Christopher Fowler

Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown. — Nathan Myhrvold

A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am. — Andre Holland

You won't believe it, but for the first two years of our marriage I lived off my wife. Like every self-respecting man, I hated it. — Ram Kapoor

Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there. — Michael Strahan

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation. — Robert Breault

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable. — Carl Sagan

When a man eats his words, that's recycling. — Frank A. Clark

It's not true that skeptics consider nothing sacred. They consider freedom sacred. — Marty Rubin

I write to close my eyes. — Franz Kafka

Islamic killers are over here because we are over there. — Patrick J. Buchanan