| Albert Schweitzer |
"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always."
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
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| Aldous Huxley |
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
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| Carl Jung |
"Religion is a defense against the experience of God."
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
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| Doug Larson |
"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
"The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice."
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
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| Stephen Hawking |
"It matters if you just don't give up."
"My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all."
"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
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| Mao Tse-tung |
"In waking a tiger, use a long stick."
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
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| John Lennon |
"All we are saying is give peace a chance."
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans."
"We're more popular than Jesus now; I dont know which will go first; rock 'n' roll or Christianity."
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| Bill Cosby |
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
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| George Orwell |
"Big Brother is watching you."
"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
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| Kurt Vonnegut |
"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be."
"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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| James Thurber |
"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality."
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| Isaac Asimov |
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'"
"The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws."
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| Niels Bohr |
"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
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| Hunter S. Thompson |
"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."
"Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether. "
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| Ernest Hemingway |
"Courage is grace under pressure."
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
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| Franklin P. Jones |
"The most efficient labor-saving device is still money."
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
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| George Santayana |
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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| Marshall McLuhan |
"The medium is the message."
"The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village."
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| Bertolt Brecht |
"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"
"War is like love; it always finds a way."
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