You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.

It was Trout's fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man's first printing press. You are reading a bold and universal headline which says,'I am here, I am here, I am here.

Kurt Vonnegut

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Robert Graves

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Publilius Syrus

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

Martha Plimpton

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Voltaire

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

Phillip E. Johnson

I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

Roger Daltrey

We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.

Paolo Bacigalupi

There are now a days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.

Henry David Thoreau

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Pablo Neruda

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Richard Steele