Sirocco Quotes

#1. The sports of children satisfy the child.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. A Godless life is a goalless life.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#3. The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

Oliver Stone

#4. With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Timothy Noah

#5. Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Albert Einstein

#6. The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ... and learning to go on with what she had left.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. If a being from another world were to ask you, "How can I learn what it's like to be human?" a good answer would be, "Study mythology.

Joseph Campbell

#8. I am like a prisoner who is trying to escape from jail by the wrong route. For all one knows, that door may stand open, although I continue to dig a tunnel with a teaspoon.

John Cheever

#9. He raised his eyebrows briefly. Since this was the only plausible way of moving something that huge, he didn't consider it worthy of an extended answer.

Neal Stephenson