Magdeburg Experiment Quotes

#1. Doubtless any horoscope seems "true" if it tells that you are highly attractive to the opposite sex and your worst fault is generosity.

George Orwell

#2. We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Tom Wolfe

#3. A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.

Boris Gelfand

#4. I don't think I could ever really be with a woman because that's a lot of ... Yeah, there's a lot of estrogen and I'm a lot to deal with when it's that time of the month, so I can't imagine it times two.

Christina Aguilera

#5. Infuriated, I scrambled over him, even more furious when I saw the humored glint in his eyes. "God you tick me off."
"Well at least I got you
"
"Don't even finish that statement!

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. We live in a time when people give up too easy.

Denzel Washington

#7. That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to be able to produce the pace at the very finish. It gives a thrill which compensates for months of training and toiling. But it is the sort of race that one wants only about once a season.

Jack Lovelock

#8. To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

William Hazlitt

#9. I think if you talk to anybody who would like to have had children ... I mean, you look at families all the time and you see there is something there that you don't have.

Theresa May

#10. Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence.

Liz Greene

#11. I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

Christopher Hitchens

#12. If you make fiction just as valuable as reality, then any reality you don't need can be a delusion

Ryohgo Narita

#13. In the interview, Roger reflected how the German philosopher Nietzsche said a man can undergo torture if he knows the why of his life. But I, here at Dachau, learned something far greater. I learned to know the Who of my life. He was enough to sustain me then, and is enough to sustain me still

Ken Dignan