Posts in the category “quotations”

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
André Gide

What has happened to us in this country? If we study our own history we find that we have always been ready to receive the unfortunates from other countries, and though this may seem a generous gesture on our part, we have profited a thousandfold by what they have brought us.
Eleanor Roosevelt – 1939

“Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.”
William Faulkner

“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”
Beryl Markham

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books.
George Santayana

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling

Stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
Richard P. Feynman

“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”
Alfred Hitchcock

Sometimes you don’t know if you’re Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
Anthony Kennedy