Sternberg International Quotes

#1. What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?

Homer

#2. Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

Prince Philip

#3. Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

Chuck Grassley

#4. I'll never pay above the odds for something if there's a more cost-effective alternative, so I guess that's where the saver in me shines through.

Andy Murray

#5. Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children ... let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money ... and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

Ansel Adams

#6. A village idiot, in the literal sense, who really loves the truth, even when he only babbles, is in his thinking infinitely superior to Aristotle. He is infinitely nearer to Plato than Aristotle ever was.

Simone Weil

#7. You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.

Mark Lanegan

#8. I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

Nate Mendel

#9. What the fuck are cavemen doing here?

Peter Clines

#10. You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

Gary Shteyngart

#11. He'd built his life on wanting the impossible - true power, recognition, a future - and now magic had found him the moment he stopped looking. It breathed life into all those old dreams, filling him with that most terrible of questions:
What if . . .

Roshani Chokshi

#12. The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

Vladimir Lenin

#13. It used to be that in comedy you had to play the clubs and work your way up, but now, before you do the clubs, you can put something up on the Internet. It's public access times a million.

Trevor Moore

#14. One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

Stephen Covey