Feinmann Lexington Quotes

#1. Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says.

Nikolai Gogol

#2. A sense that even if every scrap of a life were saved, thrown into a giant mound and then carefully sifted to extract all possible meaning, it would not add up to a life.

Siri Hustvedt

#3. To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#5. Just because the situation turned out kind of messed up doesn't mean that my memories aren't valid," he says. "They're still true,still real.

Melissa C. Walker

#6. The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.

Marianne Williamson

#7. The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

Julio Cortazar

#8. There aren't any embarrassing questions - just embarrassing answers.

Carl T. Rowan

#9. A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you it is a real possibility. Just imagine it. We have already begun discussion of the last two substantive points: victims and the end of the conflict.

Juan Manuel Santos

#10. This was the dangerous line women had to walk. Curiosity versus consequences.

Marilyn Brant

#11. My skin is pretty low-maintenance, but I'm a big sunscreen wearer, which I think is the big thing when it comes to wrinkles, right?

Deborah Ann Woll

#12. Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

#13. Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#14. I prithee take thy fingers from my throat, For, though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear. Hold off thy hand. - From Hamlet by Shakespeare

Matthew Quick