Fleur Cowles Quotes

#1. Although I am fully convinced of the truth of Evolution, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists. But I look with confidence to the future naturalists, who will be able to view both sides with impartiality.

Charles Darwin

#2. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Ayn Rand

#3. Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective.
Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more.
Not that hard is it?

Donald L. Hicks

#4. Pride went before, ambition follows him.

William Shakespeare

#5. The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

Noam Chomsky

#6. The word photography comes from two ancient Greek words: photo for "light" and graph for "drawing." "Drawing with light" is a way of describing photography.

Vishal Diwan

#7. I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

Ron Kovic

#8. The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Oscar Wilde

#9. Life is not waiting for you. This moment is your life, so love it, live it, and enjoy it.

Debasish Mridha

#10. The instinctual shortcut that we take when we have "too much information" is to engage with it selectively, picking out the parts we like and ignoring the remainder, making allies with those who have made the same choices and enemies of the rest.

Nate Silver

#11. Accept people, don't stereotype people. Don't think because right now they're driving a cab, they're not going to have a master's degree or that they're dumber than you.

Isabel Coixet

#12. It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.

Valeria Mazza

#13. A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

Maria Montessori

#14. I need to narrow things down, start pruning back. Until then, I'm a whirring zoetrope of half-thoughts and worries.

Craig Silvey