Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

Shannon A. Thompson

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.

J.R.R. Tolkien

At the heart of the debate over intelligent design is this question: Can a scientific explanation of the history of life include the actions of an unseen higher being? The proponents of intelligent design, a school of thought that some have argued should be taught alongside evolution in the nation's schools, say that the complexity and diversity of life go beyond what evolution can explain.Biological marvels like the optical precision of an eye, the little spinning motors that propel bacteria and the cascade of proteins that cause blood to clot, they say, point to the hand of a higher being at work in the world.http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/national/22design.html

Kenneth Chang, In Explaining Lif

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

Hal Borland

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

John Green

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Arthur Rimbaud

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.

Jacques Pepin

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

Kahlil Gibran

You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Zig Ziglar

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Samuel E. Morison

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the limits of his comprehension.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe