Winegardner Brandywine Quotes

#1. It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.

George Orwell

#2. For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

Richard J. Needham

#3. But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct.

Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

#4. Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

Jim Butcher

#5. If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

Charles Lindbergh

#6. What's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.

Stephanie Coontz