25401 Quotes

#1. How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.

Seth Green

#2. Detective, have you ever considered the fact that violence is the recourse of the uncivilised man?" Skulduggery looked back. "I'm sophisticated, charming, suave and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilised.

Derek Landy

#3. The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?

Paul Brunton

#4. Now her compassion had been pierced and set flowing; it felt as though her life's blood were running away.

Elizabeth Goudge

#5. I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there.

Noam Chomsky

#6. Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

Anat R. Admati

#7. For he who would proceed aright ... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms ... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.

Plato

#8. Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.

Dwayne Johnson

#9. There's too much coldness in the world," I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help.

Charles Bukowski

#10. Laying aside also all considerations of works and engines of war, the invention of which has long since reached its limit, and for the improvement of which I see no further hope in the applied arts, I shall recognize the following types of stratagems connected with siege operations ...

Frontinus

#11. What is true for you in your private heart is true for all men.

David Shields

#12. Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years.

Kary Mullis

#14. Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't believe in what I'm doing, I just don't like feeling presumptuous. Like, 'This is what's going to happen!' Honestly, I don't know what will happen.

Ben Rector

#15. Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

Anthony Hopkins