Hans Peter Duerr Quotes

#1. You'll notice that the Intrepid's inertial dampeners don't work as well in crisis situations, Dahl remembered Jenkins telling them. The ship could do hairpin turns and loop-de-loops any other time and you'd never notice. But whenever there's a dramatic event, there goes your footing.

John Scalzi

#2. WHAT is your name? WHAT is your quest? and WHAT is your favorite color?

Graham Chapman

#3. A joke is never a joke if it is at the expense of another person's feelings

Heather Wolf

#4. But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Georg Brandes

#5. Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going to be bad, she let all the stops out. Anything less than full commitment to an idea of activity was 'hypocritical', the worst adjective anyone could hurl at another.

Laura Joplin

#6. No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly nothing but science. Perhaps another way to put this is that, although I think that knowledge is a natural kind, I don't think that philosophy is.

Hilary Kornblith

#7. To the Spains will come a very powerful king, by land and sea subjugating the South; This will cause harm, lowering again the crescent, clipping the wings of those of Friday.

Nostradamus

#8. You begin to understand your personality, your response, and the functions of your body, heart and mind into different situations, events and with different people, with the inward attention.

Roshan Sharma

#9. When we were working on 'Taxi to the Dark Side,' we would purposefully not show it to certain people in the cutting room, because we would include a lot of horrible material and would need a fresh pespective. They would look at us and say, 'Are you out of your minds? You can't include that!'

Alex Gibney

#10. REJECT ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT DIVERT RESOURCES FROM THE POOR

Pope Francis

#11. To recall a name or incident felt almost wearyingly physical, like clearing out an attic.

David Nicholls