Violaceae Quotes & Sayings

A detective is only human. The less of a detective, the more human he is. Henry was not much of a detective, and his human — P.G. Wodehouse

We must surrender our skepticism only in the face of rock-solid evidence. Science demands a tolerance for ambiguity. Where we are ignorant, we withhold belief. Whatever annoyance the uncertainty engenders serves a higher purpose: It drives us to accumulate better data. This attitude is the difference between science and so much else. Science offers little in the way of cheap thrills. The standards of evidence are strict. But when followed they allow us to see far, illuminating even a great darkness. — Carl Sagan

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it. — Sharon Olds

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. — David E. Kelley

Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock. — Anita Loos

When the space of a lapsus no longer carries any meaning (or interpretation), then only is one sure that one is in the unconscious. — Anonymous

If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light. — Rabbi Akiva

He has your finger, but I have your heart. — Brian Celio

There were still children in the world, and while there were children, men and women would not abandon the struggle to make safe homes to put them in, and while they struggled there was hope. — Elizabeth Goudge

Our religious activities nowadays are using law to condemn people rather than instructing men in righteousness. We have a lot of religious activities in the land but they are not bearing a lot of fruits. — Patience Johnson