"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Nothing stays the same it all gets crushed. It all gets broken. It all passes with time. Only the moment you're in… — Guillaume Musso Copy Share Image
A bloke's bowling at 150kph trying to rip the fingers off your arms or probably even worse. It gets your blood going… — Justin Langer Copy Share Image
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The truth I do not stretch or shove When I state the dog is full of love. I've also proved, by actual… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
If elected president I will have a litmus test in terms of my nominee to be a Supreme Court justice. And the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair. — Eric Felten Copy Share Image
The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
After years of infertility tests, the best decision we ever made was to adopt, and in 1987, we were bestowed a three-month-old… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Rick Steiner is so stupid, he once stayed up all night to study for a urine test. — Jim Cornette Copy Share Image
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
“Mom, camping is not a date; it's an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on… — Yvonne Prinz Copy Share Image
Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive. — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure. — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail...15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image