2059 Syllabus Quotes

#1. The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

Honore De Balzac

#2. The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

Myron Tribus

#3. When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.

Glenda Jackson

#4. Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.

Romeo Dallaire

#5. Alone a termite is powerless, but in large numbers they overthrow entire buildings.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. Sexual love, Peter, is a profoundly selfish emotion. And selfish emotions are not the ones that lead to happiness.

Ayn Rand

#7. The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

Mao Zedong

#8. Laughter brings out the child in all of us.

Bill Cosby

#9. A lady emailed me that her child had been diagnosed with autism and that hearing my material on the subject had helped her. To me, it just means that I'm making the right decision in talking about this.

Ron Funches

#10. You can be the rabbits - " She paused. "I mean the rogues.

Erin Hunter

#11. Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness is the only thing.

Rajneesh

#12. I love America, but I've now got two young kids and America has changed so much since 9/11 and Bush. It's beyond Orwellian. The idea in '1984' that if you keep saying you're being attacked then you can get away with anything has come true.

James Marsh

#13. It is a cold and harrowing morning in the life of a man the day he wakes up, looks at himself in the mirror, and finally realizes that he is not, never has been, nor will ever be George Clooney.

Ted Heller

#14. Look," he said, clearly having made up his mind, "I've made up my mind." Nailed it.

Darynda Jones