The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

Jack Prelutsky

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

Christian Bale

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

Joshua Lederberg

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

Norman Vincent Peale

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Thomas Carlyle

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

Jeffrey Kluger

In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.

Christian Lous Lange

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

Kedar Joshi

The passion for money is never fickle.

Mason Cooley

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

Leo Buscaglia

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

Hattie McDaniel