Skorka Data Quotes

#1. A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.

Matt Taibbi

#3. Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.

Otto Loewi

#4. Americans had to choose between permitting them to become democracies or maintaining power over them. It was an easy choice.

Stephen Kinzer

#5. But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

Joseph Rotblat

#6. I think we can get there, in 10 or 15 years. That will bring back manufacturing of certain high-energy intensive industries. It'll bring back jobs. It'll create a surprising economic revitalization of this country.

Mitt Romney

#7. Did he know that he worked his way into my dreams, where i missed him even in sleep

Anna Carey

#8. The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

Socrates

#9. Sometimes it takes a period of deep darkness, before we end up seeing the brightest stars ...

Jose N. Harris

#10. Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

Antonio Machado

#11. Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned for the spiritual health of people but open to your own rebukes from your mighty Word.

Max Anders

#12. The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings. Winston Churchill (1901)

Ian Kershaw

#13. Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

Keith Henson

#14. Take General Electric, for instance. Its happy ad jingle, "We Bring Good Things to Life," doesn't tell you that GE has been (1) a major maker of nuclear weapons parts,

Gloria Steinem

#15. I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.

Jonathan Ames