Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Steven Wright

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.

Cynthia Nixon

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

I don't get a chance to be home much.

Jennifer Hudson

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

Sargent Shriver

If you are going to go to the trouble of choosing healthy food for your plate, shouldn't you also choose healthy people for your life?

Ramani Durvasula

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Don Shula

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.

Lewis Mumford

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

Philip Warren Anderson

I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.

Cassandra Clare

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Bernard Mandeville