The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the devil. In… — Ian Paisley Copy Share Image
God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word "text"… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular. — Christine Lahti Copy Share Image
The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa… — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I say what's in my head, and I'm on honest ground. That is worth so much, and I think it does make… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
