James Bryant Conant Famous Quotes
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant Quotations
"Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly."
Cicero
"If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems."
Edward Hodnett
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
William Ralph Inge
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
Russell Hoban
"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."
Ambrose Bierce
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Ronald Reagan
Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Jane Harrison
There is no place more delightful than home.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet."
Bruce Sterling