Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marya Mannes

Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.

Pablo Picasso

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

Terence McKenna

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

Thomas Aquinas

Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wills of other saints are moved by God's will... For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe

Clarence Thomas

The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it....[I]f followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.

Cormac McCarthy

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

Dante Alighieri

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

Dan Savage

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.