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5541 No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. Thomas Mann
5540 In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always giv Thomas Mann
5539 It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Thomas Mann
5538 A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other peop Thomas Mann
5537 Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - Thomas Mann
5536 If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot? Gloria Steinem
5535 Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect. Gloria Steinem
5534 The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn. Gloria Steinem
5533 A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. Gloria Steinem
5532 Empathy is the most radical of human emotions. Gloria Steinem
5531 I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. Gloria Steinem
5530 Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing some Gloria Steinem
5529 Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilitie Gloria Steinem
5528 A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and Gloria Steinem
5527 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. Gloria Steinem
5526 Time is a game played beautifully by children. Heraclitus
5525 No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's Heraclitus
5524 We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is Jean-Paul Sartre
5523 Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. Jean-Paul Sartre
5522 That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I Jean-Paul Sartre
5521 There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours. Jean-Paul Sartre
5520 All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. Jean-Paul Sartre
5519 Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth. Jean-Paul Sartre
5518 Life begins on the other side of despair. Jean-Paul Sartre
5517 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. Jean-Paul Sartre
5516 Words are loaded pistols. Jean-Paul Sartre
5515 Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre
5514 We are our choices. Jean-Paul Sartre
5513 When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. Jean-Paul Sartre
5512 If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre
5511 Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. Jean-Paul Sartre
5510 Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsib Jean-Paul Sartre
5509 Hell is—other people! Jean-Paul Sartre
5508 Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. Jean-Paul Sartre
5507 I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven kno Jean-Paul Sartre
5505 Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respe Nathaniel Hawthorne
5504 Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living. Nathaniel Hawthorne
5502 Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne
5501 Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, b Nathaniel Hawthorne
5500 It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life. George W. Bush
5499 I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong. George W. Bush
5498 I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about George W. Bush
5497 My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions. George W. Bush
5496 It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it. George W. Bush
5495 It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air! George W. Bush
5494 One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. George W. Bush
5493 Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop think George W. Bush
5492 If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm George W. Bush
5491 I think war is a dangerous place. George W. Bush
5490 They misunderestimated me. George W. Bush
5489 One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictur George W. Bush
5488 It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. Arthur C. Clarke
5487 I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical. Arthur C. Clarke
5486 One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality w Arthur C. Clarke
5485 What was more, they had taken the first step towrd genuine friendship. They had Arthur C. Clarke
5484 How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean." Arthur C. Clarke
5483 Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both Arthur C. Clarke
5482 My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated Arthur C. Clarke
5481 I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligen Arthur C. Clarke
5480 One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by reli Arthur C. Clarke
5479 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke
5478 The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little wa Arthur C. Clarke
5475 True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. François de La Rochefoucauld
5474 Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, i None
5473 The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. Walter Benjamin
5472 Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because Walter Benjamin
5471 An organism at war with itself is doomed. Carl Sagan
5470 You have to know the past to understand the present. Carl Sagan
5469 Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accu Carl Sagan
5468 A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any h Carl Sagan
5467 The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in t Carl Sagan
5466 Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lo Carl Sagan
5465 You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beauti Carl Sagan
5464 The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be co Carl Sagan
5463 We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our a Carl Sagan
5462 It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned Carl Sagan
5460 One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled lo Carl Sagan
5459 We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. Carl Sagan
5458 The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of Carl Sagan
5457 Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan
5456 The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. Carl Sagan
5455 It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Ency Carl Sagan
5454 The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste o Carl Sagan
5453 What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with fl Carl Sagan
5452 The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Carl Sagan
5451 We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan
5450 The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe Carl Sagan
5449 Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. Carl Sagan
5448 People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptic Carl Sagan
5447 We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the sam Carl Sagan
5446 It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out. Carl Sagan
5445 For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagan
5444 Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind a Carl Sagan
5443 I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, f Carl Sagan
5442 Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees wi Carl Sagan
5441 I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to Carl Sagan
5440 In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good Carl Sagan
5439 Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go Carl Sagan
5438 I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. Carl Sagan
5436 Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Carl Sagan
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. — Thomas Mann
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always giv — Thomas Mann
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. — Thomas Mann
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other peop — Thomas Mann
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - — Thomas Mann
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot? — Gloria Steinem
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect. — Gloria Steinem
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn. — Gloria Steinem
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. — Gloria Steinem
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions. — Gloria Steinem
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. — Gloria Steinem
Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing some — Gloria Steinem
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilitie — Gloria Steinem
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and — Gloria Steinem
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. — Gloria Steinem
Time is a game played beautifully by children. — Heraclitus
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's — Heraclitus
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is — Jean-Paul Sartre
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. — Jean-Paul Sartre
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I — Jean-Paul Sartre
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours. — Jean-Paul Sartre
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Life begins on the other side of despair. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Words are loaded pistols. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. — Jean-Paul Sartre
We are our choices. — Jean-Paul Sartre
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. — Jean-Paul Sartre
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsib — Jean-Paul Sartre
Hell is—other people! — Jean-Paul Sartre
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven kno — Jean-Paul Sartre
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respe — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Easy reading is damn hard writing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, b — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life. — George W. Bush
I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong. — George W. Bush
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about — George W. Bush
My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions. — George W. Bush
It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it. — George W. Bush
It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air! — George W. Bush
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. — George W. Bush
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop think — George W. Bush
If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm — George W. Bush
I think war is a dangerous place. — George W. Bush
They misunderestimated me. — George W. Bush
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictur — George W. Bush
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. — Arthur C. Clarke
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical. — Arthur C. Clarke
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality w — Arthur C. Clarke
What was more, they had taken the first step towrd genuine friendship. They had — Arthur C. Clarke
How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean." — Arthur C. Clarke
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both — Arthur C. Clarke
My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated — Arthur C. Clarke
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligen — Arthur C. Clarke
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by reli — Arthur C. Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur C. Clarke
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little wa — Arthur C. Clarke
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. — François de La Rochefoucauld
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, i — None
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. — Walter Benjamin
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because — Walter Benjamin
An organism at war with itself is doomed. — Carl Sagan
You have to know the past to understand the present. — Carl Sagan
Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accu — Carl Sagan
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any h — Carl Sagan
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in t — Carl Sagan
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lo — Carl Sagan
You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beauti — Carl Sagan
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be co — Carl Sagan
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our a — Carl Sagan
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned — Carl Sagan
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled lo — Carl Sagan
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. — Carl Sagan
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of — Carl Sagan
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. — Carl Sagan
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. — Carl Sagan
It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Ency — Carl Sagan
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste o — Carl Sagan
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with fl — Carl Sagan
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from — Carl Sagan
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. — Carl Sagan
The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe — Carl Sagan
Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. — Carl Sagan
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptic — Carl Sagan
We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the sam — Carl Sagan
It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out. — Carl Sagan
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. — Carl Sagan
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind a — Carl Sagan
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, f — Carl Sagan
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees wi — Carl Sagan
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to — Carl Sagan
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good — Carl Sagan
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go — Carl Sagan
I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. — Carl Sagan
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. — Carl Sagan