I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. (A. Whitney Brown)
Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk. (Andy Gibb)
When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst. (H. Allen Smith)
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. (Hans Albrecht Bethe)
...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. (Albert Einstein)
Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. (Paul De Rapin)
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite. (Victor Hugo)
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. (Katherine Mansfield)
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. (Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko)
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things... (Richard Phillips Feynman)
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power. (Jeremy Taylor)
Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching. (Philip)
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. (Cyril Connolly)
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. (William Pitt)
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system (Robert A. Heinlein)
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. (Russell Baker)
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly. (Shakti Gawain)
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. (Horace)
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. (Robert Louis Stephenson)
No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed. (Muriel Spark)