Shakable Quotes

#1. All those before us have gone into the darkness without assurance of logic or fact or persuasive theory, with only a slender thread of hope or all too shakable convention of faith. And they have been able to sustain that slim hope in the face of darkness, then so must I.

Dan Simmons

#2. I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.

Joe Donnelly

#3. Everyone has scars, they just aren't as visible as yours

Anne Eliot

#4. The astonishing thing is that some people are good, and that many others try to be.

Katherine Boo

#5. Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

Francis Bacon

#6. I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

Leighton Meester

#7. Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.

Mary Gaitskill

#8. The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

Garry Winogrand

#9. A sincere apology is analogous to authentic repentance".

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#10. A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Robertson Davies

#11. It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

Donald Rumsfeld

#12. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

Horatio Bottomley

#13. I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

Anna Sui

#14. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#15. I don't think George Bush is a good president by any imagination, but when he said, 'If you're talking to Al-Quaeda, we want to know what it's about,' it just proves one thing: If you're president long enough, you will one day say something that is true.

Bill Maher