18360 Quotes

#1. Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.

David Rubenstein

#2. The forest was, Devan thought, strangely lovely that day, the way a woman can seem more beautiful when she is sad.

Varian Krylov

#3. The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off (but which self is the tumor?). Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

Jonathan Ames

#4. The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.

Ted Sizer

#5. If you're famous, you're not free.

Tadanobu Asano

#6. When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.

Beverly LaHaye

#7. Um, guys, I hate to interrupt whatever weirdness you two are partaking in, but we have a situation in here you might want to check on. (Phobos)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Good walking leaves no track behind it.

Laozi

#9. Understanding statistics about the risks and benefits of a treatment is called "health literacy." It

Jerome Groopman

#10. Tolerating somebody else's beliefs is not failing to criticize them. It's not persecuting them for having those beliefs. That is absolutely important. You should not persecute people for their beliefs. It doesn't mean you can't criticize their beliefs.

Colin McGinn

#11. The choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today.

Harold Klemp

#12. Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

Albert Einstein

#13. The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

Arthur Helps

#14. God has a church upon the earth, who are His chosen people, who keep His commandments. He is leading, not stray offshoots, not one here and one there, but a people. The truth is a sanctifying power, but the church militant is not yet the church triumphant ...

Ellen G. White