"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
~Philip K. Dic.k
"Peace of mind is more precious than a piece of land"
~Anwar Sadat
"Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon."
~Peter Lynch
"To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
~Carl Sagan
"You cannot be fuelled by bitterness. It can eat you up but it cannot drive you."
~Benazir Bhutto
"The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure."
~Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist."
~Anwar al- Sadat
"Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life."
~John Updike
"Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more."
~John Updike
"Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist."
~Wallace Stevens
"We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to explain ourselves in these mechanistic terms...the result might be hard to accept."
~Edward O. Wilson
"Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift."
~Camille Paglia
"When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all."
~Edward O. Wilson
"The world of poetry, mythology, and religion represents the world as a man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it."
~Joseph Wood Krutch
"I frown on a man with so little imagination that he can't spell the same word more than 2 ways."
~Mark Twain
"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated."
~Poul Anderson
 Aften Stjerne · Tue May 27, 2008 @ 04:33pm · 0 Comments |
