Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion] seems the strangest thing in all biology, and, until someone in some laboratory figures out what it is, a candidate for Modern Wonder. (quote originally by Lewis Thomas)

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

George Bernard Shaw

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has people tremble in his presence.

Emir Kusturica

I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.

Sienna Miller

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

A.E. Housman

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Robert South

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

Conrad Black

I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

David Levithan

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Charlie Chaplin

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

Ray Dalio

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of San