The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the hard sciences so brilliantly successful.

My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.

Rachel Bilson

The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.

Terry Pratchett

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Francis Bacon

Failure's a natural part of life.

John Malkovich

I've crashed my car three times.

Billy Joel

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Dorothy Parker

It may be that in the future the great intellectual struggle will be waged between the Christian faith and the scientific world view. The opponents, of course, will not be science and technology in themselves, but the various philosophies nurtured by the modern climate of opinion and reinforced by the misuse of the fruits of technology.

D. R. G. Owen

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

Neil Sheehan

O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrels' lyre?

James Weldon Johnson

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Georges Bernanos