Voluntad Popular Quotes & Sayings

One attempt to avoid the problem of induction involves weakening the demand that scientific knowledge be proven true, and resting content with the claim that scientific claims can be shown to be probably true in the light of the evidence. So the vast number of observations that can be invoked to support the claim that materials denser than air fall diWInwards on earth, although it does not permit us to prove the truth of the claim, does warrant the assertion that the claim is probably true. — Alan F. Chalmers

He wore a gleaming top hat. He had a pomaded, uptwirled black moustache. He looked like a first-class funeral. — Joseph Roth

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside. — Anchee Min

We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express. — Richard King

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business. — Matt Drudge

Don't depend on someone else's plumages to define your beauty. You have brighter and beautiful feathers. Just fly with them! — Israelmore Ayivor

Nine lives won't last you very long, will they?' says Ove. The cat licks its paw and looks as if it's not the sort of cat that likes to keep count. — Fredrik Backman

I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents. — Erin Morgenstern

I joined Arsenal to play with Robin van persie - not replace him — Olivier Giroud

To the lover of the Lord Jesus Christ there can be nothing legal about baptism. It is simply the glad expression of a grateful heart recognizing its identity with Christ in death, burial, and resurrection. Many of us look back to the moment when we were thus baptized as one of the most precious experiences we have ever known. — Henry Allen Ironside

The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas. — Don Kardong

So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world. — George W. Bush

Poetry
makes nothing happen.
It survives
in the valley of its saying. — Maxine Kumin