Aurelios Quotes

#1. Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any case, when you have solved one mystery you uncover others, perhaps to inspire greater poetry

Richard Dawkins

#3. When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.

Randal Marlin

#4. Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

Jorge Garcia

#5. It's not food if it's called by the same name in every language. (Think Big Mac, Cheetos, or Pringles.) .

Michael Pollan

#6. My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon.

Raymond Roussel

#7. I'm not a woman that's an athlete! I'm an athlete!

Skylar Diggins

#8. It is not good practice to become intrigued by Satan and his mysteries. No good can come from getting close to evil.

James E. Faust

#9. Again Sam's genitals became rock, and this astonished him as much as anything. Through Franz, he was becoming the stone Earth; the final border separating him from the planet was disappearing. And this transformation to rock was fuelled by desire, the most ephemeral thing on Earth.

Barry Webster

#10. I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.

John Maynard Keynes

#11. Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.

Gail Collins

#12. On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.

Michel Faber

#13. There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.

Carrie Snodgress

#14. I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?

Roy Jenkins