I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

James Baldwin

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The business of America is business.

Calvin Coolidge

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why can't I go to Idris with you, then?Because it's not safe for you thereO and it's safe for me here? I've been nearly killed almost a dozen times in the past month.That's because Valentine has been concentrating on the two Mortal Instruments that were here. He's going to shift his focus to Idris now. We all know it--We're hardly as certain of anything as all that. And the Clave wants to meet Clarissa. You know that, Jace.The Clave can screw itself.

Cassandra Clare

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Oscar Wilde

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

Niklas Zennstrom

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Stephen Vizinczey