637 quotes found
“Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous.”
“It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield”
“It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.”
“I like a look of agony, because I know it's true”
“Grant had dealt too long with the human intelligence to accept as truth someone's report of someone's report of what that someone remembered to have seen or been told.”
“It's our nature, isn't it? Again and again, we cling to the foolish belief taht simple solutions exist”
“A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers.”
“Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience”
“He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.”
“Our thoughts are private to protect others not ourselves. People don't have the ability to handle what you really think about them”
“It is of the dubious inevitable side of human naturelike gold teeth and tinned salmon and bastard lacy valentines”
“It wasnt human nature to leave things alone. It was normal for people to try to fix things that didnt need to be fixed; or, infinitely worse, trying to fix things that were broken, because some thi...”
“what we are we potray that in our deeds.....”
“No group-living nonhuman primate is monogamous, and adultery has been documented in every human culture studied- including those in which fornicators are routinely stoned to death. In light of all ...”
“The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.”
“What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.”
“Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.”
“For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements;...”
“It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers.”
“For that matter, all this, is there a God? Corlis -- I don't care!""Huh," I considered. "I guess I don't either"."Most people don't! All they care about," he added grimly, "is being right".”
