Ringomatic 275 Quotes

#1. We have the ability (under special circumstances) to transcend self-interest and lose ourselves (temporarily and ecstatically) in something larger than ourselves. I called this ability the hive switch.

Jonathan Haidt

#2. We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

Kelly Reilly

#3. No matter how sensible-seeming or wild an idea, the smart thinker asks: Does it work? When put to the test, can its predictions be confirmed? Subjected to such scrutiny, crazy-sounding ideas sometimes find support.

David G. Myers

#4. You should always pay attention to your instincts.

Agatha Christie

#5. A good writer can fake being an expert in anything - even men's underwear.

Greg Dybec

#6. Our children are the gift we give the world we'll never see.

Lee Salk

#7. God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.

Dwight L. Moody

#8. Nuclear weapons are to be worried about only when they're in the hands of Ronald Reagan - not so much when they're in the hands of a Third World anti-imperialist like Saddam Hussein. Can't you see?

Jay Nordlinger

#9. How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

Daniel Alarcon

#10. I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I knew, there were people in America suggesting I head back to Britain if I was unhappy at such a prospect.

Ashley Jensen

#11. Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Hugo Ball

#12. Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.

Jacques Diouf