Sociaux Culturel Quotes

#1. The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

William James

#2. Moral evil is its own curse.

Thomas Chalmers

#3. I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.

Joseph Mawle

#4. I'm a stone-cold atheist.

Howard Bloom

#5. I am Brister Fendlestick. Velcome to my hoomble home!

R.A. Salvatore

#6. He wielded verbal italics as if they were capable of actual bodily harm.

Gail Carriger

#7. I'd rather DIE than go to heaven.

Brendon Small

#8. The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#9. I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.

Dave Barry

#10. Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

Ritchie Blackmore

#11. A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.

Kurt Eichenwald

#12. When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

Harry Caray

#13. What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.

Ed Lee

#14. Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Thomas Sowell

#15. I've never had a problem in a male-dominated sector. Results speak for themselves.

Cynthia Carroll