Ponenda Quotes

#1. Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. (Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.)

William Of Ockham

#2. What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.

Bob Dylan

#3. Bob, who had never been late in his life, suspected there was something hostile at the core of people who always were.

Dennis Lehane

#4. The press is like any business. It's a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

Ben Folds

#5. Our system is not fit for purpose. It's inadequate in terms of its scope, it's inadequate in terms of its information technology, leadership, management systems and processes.

John Richard Reid

#6. Why didn't God apportion fine looks in equal accordance with deserving personalities? A horrid man ought to be horrid looking.

Tessa Dare

#7. Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute both to our standard of living and our quality of life

Tony Blair

#8. Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of existence. Hope is the ontogenetic basis of faith, and is nourished by the adult faith which pervades patterns of care.

Erik Erikson

#9. Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

Charles Francis Richter

#10. She was not taking up that subject with Ted. Not when she'd spent part of the time fighting a fantasy about hitting the sheets and the other part thinking about strangling him with them.

HelenKay Dimon

#11. I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.

Rebecca Romijn

#12. Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

George Jean Nathan

#13. What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

Mason Cooley

#14. Some of your writer friends will do better than you, by whatever standard you decide "better" counts as. And you know what you should do? Be happy for them, you neurotic twit.

John Scalzi