Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to…

“I shall pretend that,” she said; “and it will be a great comfort.” Ermengarde was at once enraptured and awed. “And will you tell…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

— Jean Cocteau

Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science,…

— Peggy Phelan

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

— Fernando Flores

Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.

— Wynton Marsalis

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

— Cynthia Lewis

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good…

— Hilaire Belloc

President Obama had voiced strong support for the effort in Afghanistan during his campaign, pledging to add two brigades, which he did. But since…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Even without voting, illegal aliens do affect who gets elected president, and that's since the Electoral College elects the president, and the states are…

— Rush Limbaugh

“To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life."…

— Robert A. Burton

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

— Alexander Pope

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is…

— John Olver

I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's…

— Luke Bryan

Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs…

— Frank H. T. Rhodes