Austin Idol Quotes

#1. I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.

Jodi Picoult

#2. It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close.

Nina LaCour

#3. The contemporary political scientist believes that he can avoid the necessity of moral judgments and that he can help frame public policy without committing himself to any ethical position.

Murray Rothbard

#4. More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international organisations, where military and civilian instruments are applied.

Jaap De Hoop Scheffer

#5. Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Orlando Bloom

#6. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

Robyn Davidson

#7. We must have tranquillity." "In a technological world," MacDonald said, "change is inevitable. What you must have for tranquillity is reasonable change, manageable change.

James Edwin Gunn

#8. There are things which cannot be clarified even by the mighty black board. Sit and talk to your close friends for that!

Nelson Jack

#9. Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes. The emergence of self-conscious states is not a drastic, extravagant, earth-shaking phenomenon.

Istvan Aranyosi