Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Emily Dickinson

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

Dominic Chianese

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

Claude M. Bristol

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

Hermann Broch

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

Phillip E. Johnson

Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

William Butler Yeats

That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

Paul Muldoon

I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.

Leo Tolstoy

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

Henry James

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

William Blackstone

Altogether, Olympia thinks the sight of herself satisfactory, but not beautiful: a smile is missing, a certain light about the eyes. For how very different a woman will look when she has happiness, Olympia knows, when her beauty emanates from a sense of well-being or from knowing herself to be greatly loved. Even a plain woman will attract the eye if she is happy, while the most elaborately coiffed and bejeweled woman in a room, if she cannot summon contentment, will seem to be merely decorative.

Anita Shreve