If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? —Harry Shearer More about this quote Tags: power powerlessness purity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: love reciprocation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them. —John Boyne in Mutiny on the Bounty More about this quote Tags: memory forgetting events Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't have everything. Where would you put it? —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: humor ownership possession Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We grow small trying to be great. —David Hockney More about this quote Tags: growth greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. —Jerome Blattner More about this quote Tags: trust mutuality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Tags: choice experience sorrow joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. —Carl Sandburg More about this quote Tags: war humor peace progress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. —J. B. S. Haldane More about this quote Tags: understanding knowledge universe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
OK, so what’s the speed of dark? —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: humor light Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: reality science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this. —Spencer Silver More about this quote Tags: learning thinking possibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. —Charles Brower More about this quote Tags: ideas growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. —Arthur C. Clarke More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge certainty science doubt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email