And what's that?
what was happening is that your brain was shutting down
My short term memory is going out.
I'm going to hell!
You're going to hell!
- The Question Isn’t Who Is Going to Let Me, It’s Who Is Going to Stop Me (quoteinvestigator.com)
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
William H. McRavenThe little instrument used to draw up this catalogue.
Lacaille writing about Reticulum- In the notes to his southern star catalogue published by the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1756 Lacaille described it as ‘The little instrument used to draw up this catalogue.
Astronomers have mapped the cosmic watershed in which our Milky Way Galaxy is a droplet. The massive structure, which the research team dubs the Laniakea Supercluster, extends more than 500 million light-years and contains 100,000 large galaxies.
Camille M. Carlisle, Sky and TelescopeThe first use of network email announced its own existence.
Ray Tomlinson, The First Network EmailFor animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
Terry Pratchett, Equal RitesIt is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done.
Terry Pratchett, Equal RitesThey both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.
Terry Pratchett, Equal RitesAlthough the scythe isn’t pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants’ revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.
Terry Pratchett, Mort“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,” he said. “Have you thought of going into teaching?”
Terry Pratchett, Mort“You’re dead,” he said. Keli waited. She couldn’t think of any suitable reply. “I’m not” lacked a certain style, while “Is it serious?” seemed somehow too frivolous.
Terry Pratchett, Mort“A man could go far, knowing his rights like you do,” said Granny. “But right now he should go home.”
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd SistersThe duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd SistersAll assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.
Terry Pratchett, PyramidsA good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when you shout, “Where’s my clean socks?”, no-one answers.
Terry Pratchett, EricFive exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett, Reaper ManHe’d never realized that, deep down inside, what he really wanted to do was make things go splat.
Terry Pratchett, Reaper ManBishops move diagonally. That’s why they often turn up where the kings don’t expect them to be.
Terry Pratchett, Small GodsGravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
Terry Pratchett, Small GodsI used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.
Terry Pratchett, Small GodsPets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o’course
Terry Pratchett, Small GodsWe’re philosophers. We think, therefore we am.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods“What’s a philosopher ?” said Brutha. “Someone who’s bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,” said a voice in his head.
Terry Pratchett, Small GodsIn the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry Pratchett, Lords and LadiesNanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.
Terry Pratchett, Lords and LadiesSometimes it’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Terry Pratchett, Men at ArmsI AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. I ONLY TURN UP ONCE.
Terry Pratchett, Feet of ClayTaxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo. And I am afraid to say that these days all I get is moo.
Terry Pratchett, JingoSome people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.
Terry Pratchett, The TruthThe Truth Shall Make Ye Fret
Terry Pratchett, The TruthLET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF CREATION VIA A LANGUAGE THAT EVOLVED IN ORDER TO TELL ONE ANOTHER WHERE THE RIPE FRUIT WAS?
Death, Death and What Comes NextYou can’t handle the truth!
Col. Jessup, A Few Good MenI say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Ripley, AliensI’m sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it’s a little hard to come by.
Doc Brown, Back to the FutureSince you’re new here, I-I’m gonna cut you a break, today. So, why don’t you make like a tree and get outta here?
Biff Tannen, Back to the FutureI know what you’re thinking – “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But, being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do you, punk?
Clint Eastwood, Dirty HarryGroundhog Day, I’ve been watching it every day since it was released.
d–b on Hacker NewsThis is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.
Phil Conners in Groundhog DayWhen Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn’t imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter.
Phil Conners in Groundhog DayYou want a prediction about the weather, you’re asking the wrong Phil. I’ll give you a winter prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.
Phil Conners in Groundhog DayYou’re going to need a bigger boat.
Matthew Brody, JawsI’m too old for this shit!
Roger Murtaugh, Lethal WeaponWhat did one shepherd say to the other shepherd? Let’s get the flock out of here!
Martin Riggs, Lethal WeaponWhat Jesus blatantly fails to appreciate is that it’s the meek who are the problem.
Reg in Life of BrianWhy should Caesar get to stomp around like a giant, while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? What’s so great about Caesar? Hm? Brutus is just as cute as Caesar. Brutus is just as smart as Caesar. People totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar. And when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody, huh? Because that’s not what Rome is about. We should totally just stab Caesar!
Gretchen Wieners, Mean GirlsI’m a Mawg. Half-man, half-dog. I’m my own best friend.
Barf, SpaceballsYou idiots! These are not them! You’ve captured their stunt doubles!
Captain of the Guard, SpaceballsI’m here to fight for truth, and justice, and the American way.
Superman, Superman (1978)You’re gonna end up fighting every elected official in this country!
Lois Lane, Superman (1978)I have enjoyed the journey. The happiness of these days, I would have never known living in the castle. I’ve seen people as they are, without pretense. I’ve seen their beauty and their ugliness with my own eyes.
Princess Yuki, The Hidden FortressLife is just a dream.
Lose a war and plenty of women go on sale.
Slave trader, The Hidden FortressWhy did you let me survive the shame of my defeat? To defeat an enemy yet let him live may seem kind, but it’s cruel!
General Hyoe Tadokoro, *The Hidden FortressHave fun storming the castle!
Miracle Max, *The Princess BrideHello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Inigo Montoya, The Princess BrideLife is pain, Highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Man in Black, The Princess BrideAnd you! Friendless, brainless, helpless, hopeless! Do you want me to send you back to where you were? Unemployed, in Greenland?!
Vizzini, The Princess BrideThere's harsh truth to face. No way I'm gonna make it on the outside. All I do in remorse is to think a way to break my parole, so they may send me back. Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. All I want is to be back where things make sense, where I won't have to be afraid all the time. Only one thing stops me. A promise I made to Andy.
Dead? No excuse for laying off work.
Supreme Being, Time BanditsYou see, to be quite frank, Kevin, the fabric of the universe is far from perfect. It was a bit of botched job, you see. We only had seven days to make it. And that’s where this comes in. This is the only map of all the holes. Well, why repair them? Why not use them to get stinking rich?
Randall, Time BanditsThis is bad Tetris. It’s hateful Tetris. It’s Tetris according to the evil AI from “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream”.
Sam Hughes, HATETRISJust as all phenomena exist in time and thus have a history, they also exist in space and have a geography.
United States National Research CouncilWhen the Moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars.
Opening song Aquarius in HairO wretched Man that I am, who shall deliver me from this turbulent Priest?
Henry II of EnglandWho shall deliver me from this turbulent priest?
Henry II of EnglandWill no one rid me of him? A priest! A priest who jeers at me and does me injury.
Henry II in Becket (1959)Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
Henry II of EnglandWill no one rid me of this troublesome priest?
Henry II of EnglandWill no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
Henry II of EnglandWill none of these lazy insignificant persons, whom I maintain, deliver me from this turbulent priest?
Henry II of EnglandComposers want people to listen to their music, they don’t want them doing something else while their music is on. I’d like to get the guy who sold all those big businessmen the idea of putting music in the elevators, for he was really clever. What on earth good does it do anybody to hear those four or eight bars while going up a few flights.
Aaron Copland, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century MusicMy definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson II, Speech in Detroit (7 October 1952)She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.
Adlai Stevenson II, The New York Times (8 November 1962)Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai Stevenson, Speeches of Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1952)When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
Aeschylus, Fragments, l, 298.He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.
Agatha Christie, Murder for Christmas (1939)How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile (1937)I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
Hecule Poirot in The Mystery of the Blue TrainUnderstand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Hecule Poirot in The Murder of Roger AckroydWhere large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha Christie, Endless Night (1967)Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz. I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.
Al Franken in his autobiography Al Franken, Giant of the Senate (2017)The guy who microwaves fish in the office.
Al Franken, The Washington PostI invented the internet.
Al GoreDuring my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Al GoreI made one great mistake in my life—when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification—the danger that the Germans would make them.
Recorded by Linus Pauling, “Note to Self regarding a meeting with Albert Einstein. November 16, 1954I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
Albert EinsteinIf you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Albert EinsteinIn the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert EinsteinThe ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein, Living PhilosophiesThe important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert EinsteinArrest each unloving thought; stamp out each critical action, and teach yourself to love all beings - not in theory but in deed and in truth.
Alice Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age (1944)EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
Ambrose Bierce, “Decalogue”, The Devil’s Dictionary (1906).Men were singing the praises of Justice. “Not so loud,” said an angel; “if you wake her she will put you all to death.”
Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (1911)But now I have no strength left—that is the problem
Last diary entry of Andrei TarkovskyI am not a comic, I have never told a joke. The comedian’s promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him. My only promise is that I will try to entertain you as best I can.
Andy KaufmanAll my theology is reduced to this narrow compass — “Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.”
Archibald AlexanderIt is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle OnassisSimplicity is very complicated.
Armen AgopGoing through the pain barrier, that’s what makes the muscles grow. There’s this pain, this aching, and going on and on and on. That’s what divides a champion from a non-champion - having the guts to go through the pain barrier.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Guardian (May 2009)Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future (revised edition, 1973)It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. Clarke, clarkefoundation.orgTwo possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. ClarkeSurvival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths.
Audre Lorde, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s HouseEven if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death
Ayn Rand, The Objectivist (February 1971)The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Ayn RandThe skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
Ayn Rand The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)I have never seen anyone burn a flag. And if I did, it would take every ounce of restraint I had not to haul off and hit them.
Barack Obama quoted in “The Constitution, Designed to Change, Rarely Does” (4 December 2008), by Jennifer S. Forsyth, The Wall Street JournalI believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
Barack Obama Answers Your Questions About Gay Marriage, Paying For College, More" at MTV News (1 November 2008)So today, let me say: Sisters and brothers of India — my confidence in what our nations can achieve together is rooted in the values we share. For we may have our different histories and speak different languages, but when we look at each other, we see a reflection of ourselves.
Remarks by Barack Obama in Address to the People of India (January 27, 2015)Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat.
Barack Obama, campaign rally in Billings, Montana (19 May 2008)I honor — we honor — the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. My differences with him are not personal; they are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign.
Barack Obama, speech following the Minnesota primary (3 June 2008)Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.
Barack Obama, Remarks on death of Osama bin Laden (May 2011)Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien – but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most – from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.
Barack Obama, in “Statement by the President on the Passing of Robin Williams” (11 August 2014)Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power.… The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors…and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.
Barack Obama, Remarks Against Going to War with Iraq (2 October 2002)Is Donald Trump the best Republican candidate for president out there? It would be tough to argue otherwise. He’s got all the makings of a breakout star; he’s got bravado and the cash to back it up.
Ben Shapiro, The Magic of Donald TrumpOccupy Wall Street is just like the Arab Spring. Both are run by people who don’t shower, hate American capitalism, and despise Israel.
Ben Shapiro, TwitterThere was a national apology for slavery. It was called the Civil War where 700,000 Americans died.
Ben Shapiro, The Daily WireSir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli, Agricultural DistressThose who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Benjamin FranklinWe must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin FranklinFrom India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary… To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization; but this is a narrow view.
Bertrand Russell, History of Western PhilosophyI don’t care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people’s thoughts. Power over people’s minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.
Bertrand RussellI should say that the universe is just there, and that is all.
Bertrand RussellI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand RussellSome part of life – perhaps the most important part – must be left to the spontaneous action of individual impulse, for where all is system there will be mental and spiritual death.
Bertrand RussellYou know, I have repeatedly defended President Bush against the left on Iraq, even though I think he should have waited until the U.N. inspections were over. I don’t believe he went in there for oil. We didn’t go in there for imperialist or financial reasons. We went in there because he bought the Wolfowitz-Cheney analysis that the Iraqis would be better off, we could shake up the authoritarian Arab regimes in the Middle East, and our leverage to make peace between the Palestinians and Israelis would be increased.
Bill Clinton, Interview with Time, June 2004Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
Bob MarleyAll types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce LeeTruth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.
Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)For six years that man has given me unsolicited advice—all of it bad.
Calvin Coolidge, referring to Herbert HooverYour assertion that the Commissioner was wrong cannot justify the wrong of leaving the city unguarded. That furnished the opportunity; the criminal element furnished the action. There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone, anywhere, any time. … I am equally determined to defend the sovereignty of Massachusetts and to maintain the authority and jurisdiction over her public officers where it has been placed by the Constitution and laws of her people.
Telegram from Governor Calvin Coolidge to Samuel Gompers, September 14, 1919According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
Carl Philipp Emanuel BachIf there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.
Charles Fort, Lo! (1931)My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?
Charles Fort, Wild Talents (1932)You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.
Charlie ChaplinAlmost no one dances sober, unless he is insane.
Cicero, Pro Murena (Chapter VI, sec. 13)Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Cicero, De Officiis (44 BC)The beginnings of all things are small.
Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et MalorumThere is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.
CiceroWhatever you do, do with all your might.
CiceroSimplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Coco Chanel, interview in Harper’s Bazaar (1923)You see, this is how you die.
Coco Chanel, last words before her deathSimplify, then add lightness
Colin Chapman, Lotus philosophyThe road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
Colin DavisI believe that I’ve made good judgments in the past, and I think I’ve made good judgments in the future.
Dan QuayleI believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change.
Dan QuayleI was known as the chief graverobber of my state.
Dan QuaylePeople that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan QuayleThis is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.
Dan Quayle, Speech to the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis (June 9, 1992)We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
Dan Quayle, Cleveland Plain Dealer (September 27, 1990)A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle, allegedlyIf we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Dan Qyale, allegedlyIt isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Dan Qyale, allegedlyJefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
Daniel J. Boorstin, The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)I still live.
Last words of Daniel WebsterThe life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
David Hume, On Suicide[Mike Pence has] got good experience and solid judgment and great background.
Dick Cheney, introductory speech opening for Pence at the annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, 2017I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don’t. I can’t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.
Dick Van Dyke, as quoted in Halliwell’s Who’s Who in the MoviesI was not a fan of Jeffrey Epstein. And you watched people yesterday saying that I threw him out of a club. I didn’t want anything to do with him. That was many, many years ago. It shows you one thing: that I have good taste.
President Donald Trump quoted by the Whitehouse.gov website (July 12, 2019)I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.
Donald Trump, New York magazine, 2002President Obama has weakened our military by weakening our economy. He’s crippled us with wasteful spending, massive debt, low growth, a huge trade deficit and open borders.
Donald Trump, Foreign Policy Speech, 27 April 2016I know the Chinese. I’ve made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.
Donald TrumpHillary Clinton refuses to say the words radical Islam, even as she pushes for a massive increase in refugees coming into our country. After Secretary Clinton’s failed intervention in Libya, Islamic terrorists in Benghazi took down our consulate and killed our ambassador and three brave Americans. Then, instead of taking charge that night, Hillary Clinton decided to go home and sleep. Incredible. Clinton blames it all on a video, an excuse that was a total lie, proven to be absolutely a total lie. Our ambassador was murdered and our secretary of state misled the nation.
Donald Trump, Foreign Policy Speech, 27 April 2016Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign… I will be the one to beat Hillary.
Donald Trump Explains All, Time, 20 August 2015This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction and weakness.
Donald Trump, 2016 Republican National Convention (21 July 2016)Monster .. Communist .. Horrible .. Totally unlikeable
Donald Trump on Kamala Harris, 8 October 2020.I blame myself for Lindsey Graham, because the only reason he won in the Great State of South Carolina is because I Endorsed him!
Donald Trump on Lindsey GrahamHe (Mike Pence) is a man of character and accomplishment. He is the right man for the job.
Donald Trump, 2016 Republican National Convention (21 July 2016)So what?
Donald Trump when told by an aide that Vice President Mike Pence was in peril as the rioting on Capitol Hill escalated on Jan. 6, 2021 according to Judge Unseals New Evidence in Federal Elections Case against Trump (October 2, 2024)Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again. He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country.
Donald Trump statement (16 February 2021)Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Right? He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn’t read them the rights—they didn’t talk, they were a terrorist, it was over. […] Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism. You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It’s like Harvard. Okay? So sad.
Donald Trump at a campaign rally (July 5, 2016)Ted Cruz lies. He’s a liar. And that’s why nobody likes him, that’s why his Senate people won’t endorse him. That’s why he stands on the middle of the Senate floor and can’t make a deal with anybody. He looks like a jerk. He’s standing all by himself. And you know, there’s something to say about having a little bit of ability to get other people to do things. You can’t be a lone wolf and stand there. That’s sort of what we have right now as a president.
Donald Trump, Morning Joe (26 January 2016)The truth is, he’s a nasty guy. He was so nice to me. I mean, I knew it. I was watching. I kept saying, ‘Come on Ted. Let’s go, okay.’ But he’s a nasty guy. Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him. He’s a very –- he’s got an edge that’s not good. You can’t make deals with people like that and it’s not a good thing. It’s not a good thing for the country. Very nasty guy.
Donald Trump in an interview on This Week, January 17, 2016Congratulations on being named Time magazine’s ‘Man of the Year’ — you definitely deserve it. As you have probably heard, I’m a big fan of yours!
Donald Trump letter to Vladimir PutinDon’t forget China’s great, and Xi is a great gentleman. He’s now president for life. President for life. And he’s great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday.
Donald Trump, fundraiser in Mar-a-Lago, 3 March 2018We have a very good relationship. People say we have the best relationship of any President-President, because he’s called President also. Now some people might call him the King of China, but he’s called President.
Donald Trump Interviewed by Lou Dobbs on Fox Business on the subject of Xi Jinping (25 October 2017)I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of DoubtThe fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think that this to be the normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
Douglas Adams in The Scientific Indian Science Fiction AnthologyShould any party attempt to abolish social security and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course, that believes you can do these things […] Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, private letterBetter a thousand innocent men are locked up than one guilty man roam free.
Dwight Kurt Schrute IIIAll that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a DreamThey who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe, EleonoraTesting can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence.
Edsger W. DijkstraFor man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
Edwin Way Teale, Autumn Across America.With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts
Eleanor RooseveltSooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball–or go extinct.
Elon Musk, EsquireEvery person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.
Elon MuskDo something worth remembering.
Elvis PresleyThe image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image.
Elvis Presley, 1972 press conferenceGod is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts. Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles.
Emily Dickinson, letter to Abiah Root (29 January 1850)If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
Emily Dickinson, letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870)The Dyings have been too deep for me, and before I could raise my Heart from one, another has come.
Emily Dickinson, 1884Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
Erma BombeckThe grass is always greener over the septic tank.
Erma BombeckWhen people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest HemingwayI would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
Eugene V. Debs, Speech in Canton, Ohio (1918)- Paris flared — Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
- Everything is only a dream.
- Existence is so bitter for every one of us!
- I am little concerned with beauty or perfection…
- I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
- If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!
- One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
- The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, from The Crack-Up, February 1936.Let justice be done, though the world perish.
Motto of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman EmperorXi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
Fidel Castro, Holocausto palestino en Gaza (2014)A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis BaconWhat Jim wanted to do, and it was totally his vision, was to get back to the darkness of the original Grimm’s fairy tales. He thought it was fine to scare children. He didn’t think it was healthy for children to always feel safe.
Frank Oz talking about The Dark CrystalIf you don’t know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he’s just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It’s one world, pal. We’re all neighbors.
Frank Sintara, Playboy interview (1963)The best revenge is massive success.
Frank SinatraThe only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. RooseveltWhen you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick DouglassPlease forgive me dear Katte, in God’s name, forgive me.
Frederick the Great witnessing the execution of Hans Hermann von KatteIf you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
Galileo Galilei, Salviati, p. 88He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1905), Act IIIHansel and Gretel discovered the ginger bread house about 45 minutes after they discovered the mushrooms.
George Carlin, Toledo Window Box (1974)Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin, Carlin on Campus (1984)I, George Carlin, being of sound mind, do not wish, upon my demise, to be buried or cremated. I wish to be BLOWN UP.
George Carlin, Last Words (2009)In the bullshit department, a businessman can’t hold a candle to a clergyman.
George Carlin, You Are All DiseasedIt’s a big club and you ain’t in it.
George Carlin, Life Is Worth Losing (2005)It’s called the American Dream, ‘cause you have to be asleep to believe it.
George Carlin, Life Is Worth Losing (2005)Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don’t have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you’d make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people [snaps fingers] just like that!
George Carlin, What Am I Doing in New Jersey? (1988)the Mediterranean ends where the olive tree no longer grows
George DuhamelActing is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
George Moore, Mummer-WorshipTo see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
George OrwellWar against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George OrwellI consider Xi Jinping the most dangerous enemy of open societies in the world.
George Soros, Tweet 16 August 2021My patience ran out on President Assad a long time ago. The reason why is because he houses Hamas, he facilitates Hezbollah, suiciders go from his country into Iraq, and he destabilises Lebanon.
George W Bush, as quoted in Bush ’loses patience’ with Syria, BBC News (20 December 2007)The state can do what they want to do. Don’t try to trap me in this state’s issue like you’re trying to get me into.
Governor Bush on gay marriage, Larry King LiveI looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country. And I appreciated so very much the frank dialogue.
George W. Bush press conference with Vladimir PutinThis crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.
George W. Bush‘Tis well
George Washington’s last wordsThere is nothing to forgive, I die for you with joy in my heart!
Last words of Hans Hermann von Katte to Frederick the GreatThe two most common elements in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity.
Harlan EllisonOptimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
Helen Keller, Optimism (1903)Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller, Let Us Have Faith (1940)Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
Helen Keller, We Bereaved (1929)Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen KellerThe bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.
Hellen Keller, The World I Live InSimplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1907)An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David ThoreauOur life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
Henry David ThoreauThis whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way?
Henry David ThoreauMoney is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery. You might as well borrow 100,000 lathes as $100,000 if the trouble is inside your business. More lathes will not cure it; neither will more money. Only heavier doses of brains and thought and wise courage can cure. A business that misuses what it has will continue to misuse what it can get.
Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther, My Life and Work, Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., (1922), p. 157Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry FordYou can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry FordHe felt there was a central processing core of life that went on and on. That was his conclusion. We talked of it many times together . . . Call it religion or what you like, Mr. Edison believed that the universe was alive and that it was responsive to man's deep necessity. It was an intelligent and hopeful religion if there ever was one. Mr. Edison went away expecting light, not darkness.
What miserable drones and traitors have I nurtured and promoted in my household who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric!
Henry II of EnglandIt is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman MelvilleThere’s a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he’s a reformer.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, CBS Face The Nation interview (27 March 2011)If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Horace Mann Journal entry (29 October 1838)Curiosity, the overwhelming desire to know, is not characteristic of dead matter. Nor does it seem to be characteristic of some forms of living organism, which, for that very reason, we can scarcely bring ourselves to consider alive.
Isaac Asimov, Gaither’s Dictionary of Scientific QuotationsI do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.
Isaac Newton, letter to Robert HookIt is the perfection of God’s works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.
Isaac NewtonTruth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac NewtonWe are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Isaac NewtonThe meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul GettyThe stars are words and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.
Jack Kerouc, Lonesome TravelerI’m going away tonight.
Last words of James BrownSay it loud. I’m black and I’m proud!
James BrownWhen I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James BrownNothing more than a change of mind, my dear.
James MadisonIf you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others, and you will find your answer.
Jane Roberts, The Early Sessions: Book 8You do not leave a sick child in the night, and you do not leave children at a time like this.
Janusz Korczak refusing offers of sanctuaryHitler didn’t snub me. It was our president who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.
Jesse Owens, in Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s OlympicsIt took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler… You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn’t be a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Lutz Long at that moment.
Jesse Owens about Lutz LongComedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.
Jim Carrey, This much I know by Tony Horkins in The ObserverI like people. They’re entertaining. I just may laugh at different things than most people. I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.
Jim Carrey, An Interview with Jim Carrey by Jeff OttoUntold American lives have been ruined by the presidency of Donald Trump. The rule of law is imperiled, our unity has been shattered, the service sector has been obliterated, and major cities are suffering. Black Americans, who have endured half a millennium of wickedness and brutality, now face more injustice and death.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim RohnVice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history. The idea he doesn’t realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that’s the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that. And the primary role of the vice president of the United States of America is to support the president of the United States of America, give that president his or her best judgment when sought, and as vice president, to preside over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there’s a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit. The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress.
Biden at the 2008 Vice Presidential debateWhen the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’
Joe Biden, Interview with CBS Evening NewsIt was that hard; I still feel that way. But I believe that President Bush failed to lead. History will judge him harshly not for the mistakes he made- we all make mistakes- but for the opportunities he squandered.
Joe Biden, Promises to Keep (2008)Given Iraq’s strategic location, its large oil reserves, and the suffering of the Iraqi people, we cannot afford to replace a despot with chaos. It would be a tragedy if we removed a tyrant in Iraq only to leave chaos in its wake.
Joe Biden, Promises to Keep (2008)The truth is, every major crime bill since 1976 that’s come out of this Congress, every minor crime bill, has had the name of the Democratic senator from the State of Delaware: Joe Biden.
Joe Biden (1994)Saddam Hussein’s pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, in my view, is one of those clear dangers. Even if the right response to his pursuit is not so crystal clear, one thing is clear. These weapons must be dislodged from Saddam Hussein, or Saddam Hussein must be dislodged from power.
US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 2002-07-31, quoted in Tara Golshan and Alex Ward (15 October 2019), “Joe Biden’s Iraq problem”, VoxI think you’re a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.
Joe Biden, Promises to Keep (2008)Putin knows that when I am president of the United States, his days of tyranny and trying to intimidate the United States and those in Eastern Europe are over
Joe Biden, Promises to Keep (2008)Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGeometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Phythagoras, the other the division of a line in extreme and mean ratio. The first we can compare to a mass of gold; the other we may call a precious jewel.
Johannes KeplerI much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Johannes KeplerI used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
Johannes KeplerThomas Jefferson survives.
John Adams, unaware that Jefferson had died several hours before.Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
John Ehrlichman interviewed by Dan BaumThe mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.
John LockeWhat worries you, masters you.
John LockeWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John MiurThis is the last of Earth. I am content.
Last words of John Quincy AdamsTheoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world.
John Stewart BellPerhaps it is best.
John Tyler, last words on his deathbedThe calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics, and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.
John von Neumann, in James R. Newman The World of MathematicsThe sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
“Method in the Physical Sciences”, in The Unity of Knowledge (1955), ed. L. G. Leary (Doubleday & Co., New York), p. 157Young man, in mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
John von NeumannWhile cutting a way through the bamboos we suddenly stumbled upon a block of lava (andesite). I was delighted to see it, for I had not previously seen as much as a pebble since we left Laikipia. As I examined it, my interest was roused.
John Walter Gregory, The Great Rift ValleyComputers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (1988)Follow your bliss
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (1988)Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (1988)The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Joseph CampbellThere is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
Joshua ReynoldsAnd you, son?
Julius CaesarI came, I saw, I conquered.
Julius CaesarVeni, vidi, vici
Julius CaeserGeorge Bush doesn’t care about black people.
Kanye West, live on NBC’s A Concert for Hurricane ReliefTheologian — the only kind of scholar who has no knowledge whatsoever of his supposed object of study.
Karlheinz Deschner, Bissige Aphorismen, S. 29I don’t think I need to apologize for being pro-American.
Katt WilliamsLong as you been living, you ain’t NEVER heard of a mother-fucker overdosin’ on marijuana. You might-a thought that nigga was dead. He ain’t dead. He gonna wake up in 30 minutes hungry enough to eat up everything in your house. That’s the side effects: hungry, happy, sleepy." That’s it.
Katt Williams, The Pimp Chronicles, Pt. 1 (2006)If @KamalaHarris wins, the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center and the American people will only be able to convey their feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call that nobody will understand.
Laura Loomer on X/TwitterThe further you progress, the higher the ideal of perfection toward which you strive rises.
Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom, P. Sekirin, trans. (1997)To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation.
Leonard BernsteinThe proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
Lewis CarrollIf we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed... and we will deserve it.
If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.
Lindsey Graham, Washington Press Club dinner in February 2016For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.
Lord Byron, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron by Thomas Medwin (1823)Bach is the immortal God of Harmony
Ludwig van BeethovenCertainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.
Ludwig WittgensteinWe are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
Ludwig WittgensteinTell them I’ve had a wonderful life.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, last wordsThe limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig WittgensteinIn reality there are as many religions as there are individuals…. Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
Mahatma Gandi, Hind Swaraj (1909)Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.
Mahatma GandhiPrayer is the key of the morning, and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma GandhiVictory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mahatma Gandi, Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13 (1919)We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consider what precious little profit Europe has found in these.
Mahatma Gandi, Indian opinionA man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Malcolm XNo, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the 22 million black people who are the victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver—no, not I. I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.
Malcolm XStumbling is not falling.
Malcolm XThe future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcom XA man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark TwainAgainst the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain, The Mysterious StrangerAlways do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Mark TwainGet your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark TwainIf you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark TwainPrinciples have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain, Extracts From Adam’s Diary (1906)The funniest things are the forbidden.
Mark TwainThousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice. … I have touched upon this matter in a small book which I wrote a generation ago and which I have not published as yet — Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven. When Stormfield arrived in heaven he … was told that … a shoemaker … was the most prodigious military genius the planet had ever produced.
Mark TwainThunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark TwainTo create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
Mark TwainActing is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we’re acting. Most people do it all day long.
Marlon Brando, as quoted in The New York Times (2 July 2004)il cessa de calculer et de vivre— … he ceased to calculate and to live.
Marquis de Condorcet on the death of EulerI’m not as funny as Chandler is. Because Chandler has thirty people writing for him.
Matthew Perry, GQ (November 2000)There are metaphysical problems, which cannot be disposed of by declaring them meaningless. For, as I have repeatedly said, they are “beyond physics” indeed and demand an act of faith. We have to accept this fact to be honest. There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that “belief” must be discarded and replaced by “the scientific method.”
Max Born, Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance (1964)But science sets out confidently on the endeavor finally to know the thing in itself, and even though we realize that this ideal goal can never be completely reached, still we struggle on towards it untiringly. And we know that at every step of the way each effort will be richly rewarded.
Max PlanckNatural science wants man to learn, religion wants him to act.
Max PlanckScience cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Max PlanckI am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
Michael Faraday- Maxwell’s equations… originally consisted of eight equations. These equations are not “beautiful.” They do not possess much symmetry. In their original form, they are ugly. …However, when rewritten using time as the fourth dimension, this rather awkward set of eight equations collapses into a single tensor equation. This is what a physicist calls “beauty,” because both criteria are now satisfied.
There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin. There is only room for champions of freedom.
Mike Pence, 2022There’s a reason why people question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton, and that’s because they’re paying attention.
Mike Pence, vice presidential debateAn escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. You would never see an “Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order” sign, just “Escalator Temporarily Stairs”. Sorry for the convenience. We apologize for the fact that you can still get up there.
Mitch Hedberg, Just for Laughs, 1998The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 30th Anniversary Press Conference, NASAPoverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. And overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
Nelson Mandela, Make Povery HistoryAnyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
Niels BohrEvery sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels BohrEvery valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
Niels BohrLet the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Nikola Tesla as quoted in A Visit to Nikola Tesla by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927)If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.
Nikola Tesla, as quoted in The New York Times (19 October 1931)Dream big and dare to fail.
Norman VaughanAll art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde, preface to The Picture of Dorian GrayLearn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo PicassoIreland unfree shall never be at peace.
Patrick PearseYou are what you believe yourself to be.
Paulo Coelho, The Witch of PortobelloI don’t believe that the universe exists. I believe that the only thing that exists is God and he is more than the universe. The universe is an extension of God into space and time. That’s the premise I start from in my work, that so-called “reality” is a mass delusion that we’ve all been required to believe for reasons totally obscure.
Philip K. DickMy major preoccupation is the question, ‘What is reality?’ Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I’ve written about fascism and my fear of it.
Philip K. Dick, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 8, Part 1 (1981)The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Philip K. Dick, How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978)There is one thing that the people of Ireland know how to do and that is to survive.
Pierce Brosnan, RTE Interview (March 2011)Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceA beautiful face is a silent commendation.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeA good reputation is more valuable than money.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeAnyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeBitter for a free man is the bondage of debt.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeConfession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeFor a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeFortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeHe doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeIf your parent is just, revere him; if not, bear with him.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeIt is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeIt is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeLet a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeNecessity gives the law without itself acknowledging one.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaePardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaePenitence follows hasty decisions.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaePoverty is the lack of many things, but avarice is the lack of all things.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeThe judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeToo much straightforwardness is foolish against a shameless person.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeWhen Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeWhom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.
Publilius Syrus, SententiaeNothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Literary Ethics (1838)I think, therefore I am.
René DescartesIn order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
René Descartes (1644), Principles of PhilosophyI’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
Last words of Richard FeynmanOf the gladest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey to unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the Slavery of Home, man feels once more happy. The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood….afresh dawns the morn of life…
Richard Francis Burton, Journal Entry (2 December 1856)Less is more.
Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto (1855)To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Robert GravesFor the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book (1894)A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)- Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.
To the American people who are struggling right now, know this: We hear you. We see you. We smell you. We’re inside your kitchen right now looking through your fridge. And what’s that on the top shelf? Migrants.
Scarlett Johansson, Saturday Night LiveGentlemen, there are times when a cigar is only a cigar!
Sigmund FreudI am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.
Sophie SchollSomebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don’t dare express themselves as we did.
Sophie Scholl, statement to the VolksgerichtshofDonald Trump… this man is a pathological liar
Ted CruzI think President Obama is the most radical president this nation’s ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.
Ted Cruz interview with Caroline MayIt’s not easy to tick me off… I don’t get angry often. But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids; that’ll do it every time. Donald, you’re a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.
As quoted in “Cruz calls Trump “sniveling coward” and says ’leave Heidi the hell alone’” (24 March 2016), by Reena Flores, CBS NewsLet me be clear: Donald Trump may be a rat, but I have no desire to copulate with him.
As quoted in Ted Cruz Will Do Anything for Love, But He Won’t Do Rats [25 March 2016], by Matt Miller, Esquire MagazineWho the hell elected you?
Ted Cruz, Addressing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey during Big Tech senate hearingWhen the gods gift you with the type of talent Robin had, there’s a price to pay, there always is — it doesn’t come from nothing, It comes from … probably deep problems inside, a concern, all sorts of fears, and yet he could always channel those things and turn them into something gold … I think that just comes with the territory, frankly.
Terry Gilliam on the ‘miracle of Robin Williams’, BBC NewsThis isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchettSpeak softly and carry a big stick.
Theodore RooseveltGenius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas EdisonNature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love — He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions
“No Immortality of the Soul” says Thomas A. Edison. New York Times. October 2, 1910- Over his desk Edison displayed a placard with Sir Joshua Reynolds’ famous quotation: “There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.” This slogan was reputedly posted at several other locations throughout the facility.
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. What a soul may be is beyond my understanding.
“Do We Live Again?” an interview with Thomas Edison, as quoted in Mr. Edison’s New Argument from Design in The Illustrated London News (3 May 1924)I failed my way to success.
Thomas EdisonTom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I might say right here that this is a national loss and a deplorable lack of understanding concerning the man who first proposed and first wrote those impressive words, ’the United States of America.’ But it is hardly strange. Paine’s teachings have been debarred from schools everywhere and his views of life misrepresented until his memory is hidden in shadows, or he is looked upon as of unsound mind.
Thomas Edison, Essay in The Diary and Sundry Observations (1948) edited by Dagobert D. RunesAll things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller, M.D.History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Dr. James Currie (28 January 1786) Lipscomb & Bergh 18:iiThe God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)There are extraordinary situations which require extraordinary interposition. An exasperated people, who feel that they possess power, are not easily restrained within limits strictly regular.
Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)A body of men, holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by any body
Thomas Paine, Rights of ManMingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.
Thomas Paine, Common SenseA man who is so exceedingly civil that for the sake of quietude and a peaceable name will silently see the community imposed upon, or their rights invaded, may, in his principles, be a good man, but cannot be stiled a useful one, neither does he come up to the full mark of his duty; for silence becomes a kind of crime when it operates as a cover or an encouragement to the guilty.
Thomas PaineThink for yourself and question authority.
Timothy LearyIf you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
Timothy Leary, Changing My Mind, Among Others (1982)The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It’s the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It’s very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It’s in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.
Tom PettyI die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
VoltaireThat’s good. Go on, read some more.
Last words of Warren G. HardingWhatever you are, try be a good one.
William Makepeace ThackerayThis is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.
William S. BurroughsMathematics is the only true metaphysics.
William Thomson, as quoted by Silvanus Phillips ThompsonKeep calm and carry on.
Winston ChurchillNothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston ChurchillThe story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace in the world; and before history began, murderous strife was universal and unending.
Winston ChurchillI deem him one of the greatest beings alive in our time… We shall never see his like again. His name will live in history. It will live in the annals of war… It will live in the legends of Arabia.
Winston Churchill about T.E. LawrenceI have had closer interactions with President Putin than with any other foreign colleagues. He is my best and bosom friend. I cherish dearly our deep friendship.
Xi Jinping, Business InsiderIt is for the people of Asia to run the affairs of Asia, solve the problems of Asia and uphold the security of Asia. The people of Asia have the capability and wisdom to achieve peace and stability in the region through enhanced cooperation.
Xi Jinping, New Asian Security Concept For New Progress in Security Cooperation，Shanghai Expo Center, 21 May 2014Who can compare with justice? It creates life.
Sumerian proverb from Urim, 3rd millennium BCE“IDS Building, the big glass one, tallest skyscraper in the Midwest after the Sears - uh, Chicago…John Hancock building whatever…”
Steve Buscemi, FargoDid anyone ever see the fields in better condition for corn planting?
The Manchester Democrat, May 16, 1917the texture of the cityscape of Seattle is dominated by concrete, and the freeway itself appears like a dry concrete riverbed that flows through the city
Angela Danadjieva, designer of Freeway ParkIts beauty was wild and untrammeled and the undulating hills were covered with luxuriant grasses.
Moscow, Idaho homesteader, 1880sMy little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18 KJVBeloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:7 KJVWe know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.
1 John 5:19 NKJVThe Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
1 Kings 8:57 KJVIn every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJVThe love of money is the root of all evil.
1 Timothy 6:10Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
2 Corinthians 9:15 KJVBut this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
2 Corinthians 9:6 KJVEvery man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7 KJVAnd God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
2 Corinthians 9:8 KJVWhatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 KJVFor my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9 KJVIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1 KJVYou may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
John 14:14 NIVBefore long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
John 14:19 NIVOn that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
John 14:20 NIVWhoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.
John 14:21 NIVThen you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
John 8:32 NIVAnd if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Leviticus 19:33 KJV"But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:34 KJV"Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
Mark 13:11 NIV“Do you see all these great buildings?” replied Jesus. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
Mark 13:2 NIVBlessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:5 NIVAt that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
Matthew 12:1 KJVAt that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.
Matthew 12:1 NIVAnd, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
Matthew 12:10 KJVand a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus, they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
Matthew 12:10 NIVAnd he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
Matthew 12:11 KJVHe said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?
Matthew 12:11 NIVHow much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Matthew 12:12 KJVHow much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
Matthew 12:12 NIVThen saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
Matthew 12:13 KJVThen he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other.
Matthew 12:13 NIVThen the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
Matthew 12:14 KJVBut the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.
Matthew 12:14 NIVBut when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;
Matthew 12:15 KJVAware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed him, and he healed all who were ill.
Matthew 12:15 NIVAnd charged them that they should not make him known:
Matthew 12:16 KJVHe warned them not to tell others about him.
Matthew 12:16 NIVThat it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
Matthew 12:17 KJVThis was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
Matthew 12:17 NIVBehold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
Matthew 12:18 KJV“Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
Matthew 12:18 NIVHe shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
Matthew 12:19 KJVHe will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear his voice in the streets.
Matthew 12:19 NIVBut when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
Matthew 12:2 KJVWhen the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”
Matthew 12:2 NIVA bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
Matthew 12:20 KJVA bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he has brought justice through to victory.
Matthew 12:20 NIVAnd in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
Matthew 12:21 KJVIn his name the nations will put their hope.”
Matthew 12:21 NIVThen was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
Matthew 12:22 KJVThen they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see.
Matthew 12:22 NIVAnd all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
Matthew 12:23 KJVAll the people were astonished and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”
Matthew 12:23 NIVBut when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
Matthew 12:24 KJVBut when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.”
Matthew 12:24 NIVAnd Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
Matthew 12:25 KJVJesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.
Matthew 12:25 NIVBut Iesus knewe their thoughtes and sayde to the. Every kingdome devided wt in it sylfe shalbe brought to naught. Nether shall eny cite or housholde devyded agest it sylfe cotynue.
Matthew 12:25 TYNAnd if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
Matthew 12:26 KJVIf Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?
Matthew 12:26 NIVAnd if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
Matthew 12:27 KJVAnd if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.
Matthew 12:27 NIVBut if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
Matthew 12:28 KJVBut if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Matthew 12:28 NIVOr else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
Matthew 12:29 KJV“Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
Matthew 12:29 NIVBut he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
Matthew 12:3 KJVHe answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
Matthew 12:3 NIVHe that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
Matthew 12:30 KJV“Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
Matthew 12:30 NIVWherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
Matthew 12:31 KJVAnd so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
Matthew 12:31 NIVWherfore I say vnto you all maner of synne and blasphemy shalbe forgeven vnto men: but the blasphemy of ye sprite shall not be forgeven vnto men.
Matthew 12:31 TYNAnd whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Matthew 12:32 KJVAnyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
Matthew 12:32 NIVEither make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
Matthew 12:33 KJV“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.
Matthew 12:33 NIVO generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matthew 12:34 KJVYou brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Matthew 12:34 NIVA good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Matthew 12:35 KJVA good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.
Matthew 12:35 NIVBut I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Matthew 12:36 KJVBut I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.
Matthew 12:36 NIVFor by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Matthew 12:37 KJVFor by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Matthew 12:37 NIVThen some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”
Matthew 12:38 KJVThen some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
Matthew 12:38 NIVBut he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Matthew 12:39 KJVHe answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Matthew 12:39 NIVHow he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
Matthew 12:4 KJVHe entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.
Matthew 12:4 NIVFor as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 12:40 KJVFor as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 12:40 NIVThe men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Matthew 12:41 KJVThe men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here.
Matthew 12:41 NIVThe queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Matthew 12:42 KJVThe Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, and now something greater than Solomon is here.
Matthew 12:42 NIVWhen the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Matthew 12:43 KJV“When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
Matthew 12:43 NIVThen he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Matthew 12:44 KJVThen it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.
Matthew 12:44 NIVThen goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Matthew 12:45 KJVThen it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.”
Matthew 12:45 NIVWhile he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
Matthew 12:46 KJVWhile Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him.
Matthew 12:46 NIVThen one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
Matthew 12:47 KJVSomeone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.”
Matthew 12:47 NIVBut he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
Matthew 12:48 KJVHe replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”
Matthew 12:48 NIVAnd he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
Matthew 12:49 KJVPointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers.
Matthew 12:49 NIVOr have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Matthew 12:5 KJVOr haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?
Matthew 12:5 NIVFor whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Matthew 12:50 KJVFor whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 12:50 NIVBut I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
Matthew 12:6 KJVI tell you that something greater than the temple is here.
Matthew 12:6 NIVBut if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Matthew 12:7 KJVIf you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
Matthew 12:7 NIVFor the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
Matthew 12:8 KJVFor the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
Matthew 12:8 NIVAnd when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
Matthew 12:9 KJVGoing on from that place, he went into their synagogue,
Matthew 12:9 NIVLet nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Philippians 2:3 KJVO the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Romans 11:33 KJVWhat a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?
Romans 7:24 NIVI am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can’t get rid of me.
MadonnaThe cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat and dishwatery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States.
Chicago Times reacting to the Gettysburg AddressIf only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag ArchipelagoMEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s DictionaryNo man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
Jonathan Harker in Dracula by Bram StokerSwift death awaits the first cow that leads a revolt against milking
Swedish Professor Peder Bjornsen, Sinister BarrierSinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel—only worse.
Gay Talese, Frank Sintra Has a ColdI find your lack of faith disturbing.
Darth Vader, Star Wars (1977)They remembered a million useless things, a quarrel with a workmate, a hunt for a lost bicycle pump, the expression on a long-dead sister’s face, the swirls of dust on a windy morning seventy years ago: but all the relevant facts were outside the range of their vision. They were like the ant, which can see small objects but not large ones. And when memory failed and written records were falsified — when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-FourAlive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking
J. R. R. Tolkien, The HobbitGood laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social ContractIf there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
Jean-Jacques RousseauMan is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social ContractWhether Mr Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object.
Editorial in the 2nd edition of The Blind ManCicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato’s Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.
Plutarch, Parallel Livesimpossible questions require impossible answers
Plutarch, Alexander, sec. 54There is nothing unreachable to those who have courage.
Plutarch, Life of AlexanderTimothy Leary’s dead / No, n-n-no he’s outside looking in
Ray Thomas, opening lyrics of Legend of a MindSo blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there."
René Descartes, Le Discours de la Méthode (1637)He grokked that this was one of the critical cusps in the growth of a being wherein contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth. He acted.
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinLanguage itself shapes a man’s basic ideas.
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinComedy says that it’s better to acknowledge the warts than to pretend that they’re beautiful, tragic freckles.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922).Frankly, I did not get full satisfaction from this interview.
Vladimir Putinthe middle-class nightmare… an anti-media media phenomenon simply because their name could not be printed
Abbie Hoffman“Life” in this “society” being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of “society” being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex.
Valerie Solanas, SCUM ManifestoIf the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and HellWithout contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and HellA man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (c. 1600-02), Act IV, scene 3The lady doth protest too much, methinks
Queen Gertrude, Hamlet
