Unstemmable Quotes

#1. We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of chaos. Gone is purpose; all that is left is direction. This is the bleakness we have to accept as we peer deeply and dispassionately into the heart of the Universe.

Peter Atkins

#2. Why haven't you asked me how I do my tricks?" Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. "Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.

Erin Morgenstern

#3. Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Malcolm Forbes

#4. It is not." "If it is not, what have I to do with it?" "You should have gone away when I asked you," he muttered. "I stayed when you asked me," was Lord Henry's answer.

Oscar Wilde

#5. In general, however, these gentlemen, the reformers, legislators, and politicians, do not desire to exercise an immediate despotism over mankind. No, they are too moderate and too philanthropic for that. They only contend for the despotism, the absolutism, the omnipotence of the law.

Frederic Bastiat

#6. It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

Anne Enright

#7. We will work with everybody for the good of New York.

Daniel Libeskind

#8. Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

Aristotle.

#9. I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.

Kim Wilde

#10. You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

Mother Jones

#11. My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed ... It is not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of paleobiological facts ... The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief.

Nils Heribert-Nilsson