Tildy Becker Quotes

#1. When you get the red letters right, it all makes sense.

Don C Harris

#2. And is that all you can say for him?" cried Marianne, indignantly. "But what are his manners on more intimate acquaintance? What his pursuits, his talents, and genius?" Sir John was rather puzzled.

Jane Austen

#3. I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

H.G.Wells

#4. It is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

Richard Dawkins

#5. I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright hostile. You won't know how strong your beliefs really are until you have to defend them.

Joan Bauer

#6. The law of common sense.

Sophie Swetchine

#7. Lord, I can approach you only by means of my consciousness, but consciousness can only approach you as an object, which you are not. I have no hope of experiencing you as I experience the world - directly, immediately - yet I want nothing more.

Christian Wiman

#8. I think socialism is really about recognizing that there are limits to what the market can do. The market is very useful; at times it works very well, but it doesn't always work.

Gillian Tett

#9. The fact that I didn't have a mom is a challenge; it was a struggle; and we made the best of it, and because of that my relationship with my dad is that much stronger.

Apolo Ohno

#10. Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

Joe Slovo

#11. Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.

David Fincher

#12. Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#13. Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness:

Bernard Lown