Nytimes Mini Quotes

#1. Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

Nicholas Stern

#2. The only thing that lasts is love, even when it's gone.

Ellen Sussman

#3. Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#4. Tiptoe to the water's edge. They show their raiments.

Yann Martel

#5. To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

Edmund Burke

#6. A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

James Madison

#7. I looked at it, and thought I was seeing adult life.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#9. I used to be a free spirit.

Soleil Moon Frye

#10. It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.

Thomas Huxley

#11. All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

E.L. James

#12. Why is it that happiness can disappear in an instant but sadness stays around forever?

Marsha Qualey

#13. The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

Russell Hoban

#14. Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.

Marco Rubio

#15. Libertarians are learning to their sorrow that big businessmen cannot necessarily be relied upon to be their allies in the battle against extension of governmental encroachments.

Henry Hazlitt