Wettable Flank Quotes & Sayings

Oppenheimer's agony tore him open from top to bottom. More important than any political dispute his biographers may hope to re-animate or even to settle is a sense of that agony: what it means to be a man desiring scientific and political and moral greatness and living out the crucial ideas and struggles of our time, which pierce like knives, and rend the flesh and the spirit, and allow not a moment's relief. — Algis Valiunas

In the Thirties all of us who were young had been united by anger and the obviousness of our plight; in the war we had been united by fear and the obviousness of the danger. But now, prosperous under the bomb, we all seemed to have become atomized. Wherever I looked I saw people trying to live private lives for themselves and their families. Nobody asked the big questions any more. Why think, when the thing to be thought about is so huge it is impossible to think about it? Why ask where you are going, when you know you can't stop even if you wish? Why ask why, when it does no good to know why? — Hugh MacLennan

After college I picked my races to be one race every two weeks. That gave me time to recover. I raced just as fast as my legs would carry me. At the end of every race there was nothing left. I walked off the track completely spent! — Gerry Lindgren

I think the people already know what they're doing wrong, and I certainly believe in Hell. But to me, when I see thousands of people before me, it just doesn't come out of me to say, 'You guys are terrible, and you're going to Hell.' I'd rather say that God is a God of mercy. You've got to live an obedient life, but for every mistake you've made, there's mercy there, and I believe we can do better. — Joel Osteen

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination. — Rose George

A cynic once told G. K. Chesterton, the British novelist and essayist, "Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." Chesterton's rejoinder? "Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything. — Benjamin Graham

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. — Karl Barth

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself. — Henry Giroux

I've made quite a number of movies that I've never even seen and I've made some movies that I thought were good that nobody saw ... Sometimes they end up on television. — Christopher Walken

I never would've thought seeing a hundred naked people around a swimming pool would have been dullsville, but it is. — Mark Haskell Smith

They say to think within the box, but it's funny how those in the box never go anywhere, where those outside it, get to see the world. — Anthony Liccione

At the moment the eyes of the body closed, the eyes of the mind were opened. — Ousmane Sembene