"What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God."
Augustine of Hippo
"Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist."
Samuel R. Delany
"Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor."
Euginia Herlihy
"More Miracles occur from Gratitude and Forgiveness than anything else."
Philip H. Friedman
"I don't want to make people mad. I just... Well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?"
Brandon Sanderson
"Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?"
Frank J. Giblin
"Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself."
Vernon Howard
"Live and learn and pass it on."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?Her resilience ?Her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? Is that true or is it just a consolation ? A shifting of responsibility? And if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?"
Ahdaf Soueif
"A cat is friendly in a hollow sort of way, like the way a prostitute is friendly."
Jonathan-David Jackson
"Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences."
James Reston
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
John Stuart Mill
"Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday."
John McWhorter
"Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify."
Robert T. Pennock
"He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty."
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