Picture Thermometer Quotes

#1. Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

#2. Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

Bruce Barton

#3. The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I'll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.

Courtney Milan

#4. I love math and science, and also, my mom is a doctor. I grew up not even having an awareness that women were not supposed to be good at science.

Megan Amram

#5. I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

John McAfee

#6. How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Franz Kafka

#7. Probably in 2035 we will pass that mantle on to China. It will be the biggest economy in the world, and it will go way past us and way past India. Given the growth, the size, the opportunities, I don't think there's any other place in the world that can match it.

David Rubenstein

#8. The mechanic says, If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. We pretend to be what we are not because we are afraid of being rejected.

Miguel Ruiz

#10. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

Terence McKenna

#11. I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

Alan Furst

#12. Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#13. I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

Andrew Motion