As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

Lev Artsimovich

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

Christopher Hitchens

The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.

Source Unknown

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Claude Debussy

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Eileen Caddy

Luck is the residue of design.

Branch Rickey

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

Christopher Hitchens

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Marguerite Blessington

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

Trey Parker

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

Steve Maraboli

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Johann von Goethe

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Leo Buscaglia