Closed Chapters Quotes

#1. Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

John M. Ford

#2. To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

Isadora Duncan

#3. Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Andrei Sakharov

#4. I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#5. A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Alan Perlis

#6. This is also a book abut God, about what it means
and what it doesn't mean
to believe.

Emily P. Freeman

#7. Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#8. So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

William Kirby

#9. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles so broad and bright that the angel guarding the gate to Eden puts down his fiery sword. I've been to busy to get to Eden. What kind of man is too busy to make God smile?

Alice Randall

#10. This guy is me. And you're absolutely right. This guy doesn't deserve you.

J.A. Huss

#11. Low interest rates are usually attributed to low inflation, weak economic growth and super easy monetary policy. But there's another deep-seated factor that doesn't get much attention: demographics.

Greg Ip

#12. I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.

Robert Fisk

#13. Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Livy