Opining Christmas Quotes

#1. When we plot the happiness of another, we unconsciously impute to the other person what is in another form the dream in which our own happiness is fulfilled. Thus by not thinking of our own happiness we make it possible for ourselves to become egotistic.

Yukio Mishima

#2. If shame had a sound, it would sound like an agonizing scream, but unfortunately it's a silent emotion. One I've been hiding from for years.

B.N. Toler

#3. The iconoclasm need not be loud and messy, I can almost hear him saying,

John Edward Williams

#4. Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

James Webb Young

#5. Rejoice and love yourself today
'Cause baby, you were born this way.

Lady Gaga

#6. A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

#7. I think there is a lot of good in making the All-Star Team. People look at your career a little bit differently.

Frank Thomas

#8. So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

Michio Kaku

#9. The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.

Colin Powell

#10. It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.

Fannie Flagg

#11. I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

Jeremy Northam

#12. I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Al Sharpton

#13. The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed because it leads to rampant immorality, on both the personal and political scales. The basic cause of this immorality is atheism.

Elizabeth S. Anderson

#14. No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

Grace Hopper

#15. Pay great attention to those who love you, and love those who hate you.

Debasish Mridha