Monday, February 25, 2008
Quotes Update
Horace
To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
John Burroughs
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
Napoleon
Men, in general, are but great children.
Thomas Paine
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
Max Percy
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Robert J. Sawyer
How do you define God Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
More Quotes
Rock me, baby: MP3 plus Taser
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:58:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - The clip became so popular that the Yale Book of Quotations made Meyer's remark its most memorable quote of 2007. Asked whether she would be buying the MPH, Susan Billbrough, a 38 ...
Benazir's blueprint
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:28:00 GMT
Deccan Herald - In furtherance of her thesis, she quotes at length a number of Muslim scholars. For those who have spent the better part of the past decade making the same argument, this chapter ...
Medill Dean Taken to Task Over Quotations
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:55:00 GMT
Daily Herald - When David Spett, a Northwestern University journalism student, read an item by his dean, John Lavine, in an alumni magazine last spring, something didn't sit right with him. Some ...
¶ 12:06 AM
Today's Quotes:
Horace
To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
John Burroughs
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
Napoleon
Men, in general, are but great children.
Thomas Paine
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
Max Percy
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Robert J. Sawyer
How do you define God Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
More Quotes
Rock me, baby: MP3 plus Taser
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:58:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - The clip became so popular that the Yale Book of Quotations made Meyer's remark its most memorable quote of 2007. Asked whether she would be buying the MPH, Susan Billbrough, a 38 ...
Benazir's blueprint
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:28:00 GMT
Deccan Herald - In furtherance of her thesis, she quotes at length a number of Muslim scholars. For those who have spent the better part of the past decade making the same argument, this chapter ...
Medill Dean Taken to Task Over Quotations
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:55:00 GMT
Daily Herald - When David Spett, a Northwestern University journalism student, read an item by his dean, John Lavine, in an alumni magazine last spring, something didn't sit right with him. Some ...
¶ 12:06 AM
