Translation is the art of failure.
There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis.
Arthur Ashe
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.
Isaac Asimov
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
Dennis Prager
Each new situation requires a new architecture.
Jean Nouvel
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
Rand Paul
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
Jack Kilby
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
Jon Meacham
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.
Gillian Anderson
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
Nancy Astor
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
Tom Harkin
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Susan B. Anthony
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.
My parents are pretty cool people.
Dominic Monaghan
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Georg Buchner
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
Brooks Atkinson
There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.
George Osborne
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Arthur Cayley
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
Margaret Atwood
Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.
She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.
I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.
John Thune
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
Doug Coupland
It was a mutual relationship.
Monica Lewinsky
I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
Andrea Thompson
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