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“When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had condemned his theory of relativity in a book. 'Were I wrong,' he said, 'one professor would have been enough.”
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“I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.”
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“We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?”
Source : "The Meaning of God in Human Experience". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. IV : The Retirement of the Intellect, p. 38, 1912.
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“And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.”
Source : Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.818, Macmillan
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“To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!”
Source : Zoë Akins (1923). “Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...”
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“I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.”
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“I'm a southern girl from Arkansas and I am just tryin to do my thing in the business. To make a long story short I'm just trying to be successful at what I do and work hard.”
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“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”
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“I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.”
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“Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.”
