The fact is he made a prodigious blunder in commencing the attack, and now his only chance is to be silent and let people forget the exposure. I do not believe that in the whole history of science there is a case of any man of reputation getting himself into such a contemptible position.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

Morley Safer

We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.

Proverb

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Stephen Hawking

Even the wise appear foolish before one who brings peace to another.

Phoenix Desmond

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

Christina Ricci

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.

Arthur R. Marshall

It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, a former S.S. man who had stood guard at the shower room door in the processing center at Ravensbruck. He was the first of our actual jailers that I had seen since that time. And suddenly it was all therehttp://www.ecclesia.org/truth/corrie.html

Corrie Ten Boom, excerpt from Th

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

Daniel J. Boorstin

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

Daniel Keys Moran

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Havelock Ellis