Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

Sir Laurence Olivier

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Leo Tolstoy

The strongest proof that in the name of science we pursue unworthy and sometimes even harmful things is the existence of a science of punishment.

Leo Tolstoy

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

Todd Rokita

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

Bill Budge

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Gustave Flaubert

Il nous faut partir d'une conception d'ensemble de l'organisme en tant qu'une entité fondamentale de la biologie, puis comprendre comment celui-ci se divise en parties qui respectent son ordre intrinsèque - pour donner un organisme harmonieusement intégré en dépit de sa complexité.

Brian Goodwin

Victory is a political fiction.

Source Unknown

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

Mitch Daniels

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare