Carlos Clay Quotes

#1. To what extent is someone at fault if his brain is damaged in ways about which he has no choice? After all, we are not independent of our biology, right?

David Eagleman

#2. The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

Theodor Adorno

#3. We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

Emil Zatopek

#4. That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

Don DeLillo

#5. What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.

James Comey

#6. The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

John Lothrop Motley

#7. In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners, and the anti-gunners are angry with the pro-gunners for presenting facts.

Dave Champion

#8. You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.

Ami Ayalon

#9. His grandfather probably would have said that all men feel fear, but cowardly men deny it.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#10. In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

John McLaughlin

#11. Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.

Jenny Nimmo

#12. You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.

Ken Wilber

#13. i do not know why it is, vincent, but there are certain people in positions of power who take pleasure in obstructing others

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

#14. Playing Mark Antony in Julius Caesar was the most thrilling thing I've done. You get these speeches that were written for men, and you're running around like an action hero, climbing scaffolding and beating people up. It was very freeing.

Cush Jumbo