Showing posts with label Albert Schweitzer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Albert Schweitzer. Show all posts

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Quotaria

"She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing
big mistakes into small opportunities. "
- Henry James

"It is better for civilization
to be going down the drain
than to be coming up it."
- Henry Allen


"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists
in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

"Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example."
- Albert Schweitzer

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's
the stupid ones that need the advice."
- Bill Cosby

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed,
nor excommunicated, for they have no souls
- Sir Edward Coke

Friday, September 19, 2008

Quotes

"Don't let it end like this.
Tell them I said something."
- Pancho Villa

"If you obey all the rules
you miss all the fun."
- Katharine Hepburn

You cannot shake hands
with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi

Cyclops: "I believe you people have something that belongs to us?"
Gambit: "Short li'l fella."
Jubilee: "All adamantium and attitude. "He's one of a kind. We'd like him back."
Beast: "And don't forget our resident psionic Japanese-By-Way-of-Britain Ninja
Warrior...You can imagine how hard they are to replace!"
-- X-Men #7

Xavier: "Wolverine, call me 'Professor', 'Professor X', Professor Xavier', or, even if you must, 'Charles' but not 'Charley'. Is that understood?"
Wolverine: "Sure, Chuck."
- Uncanny X-Men #139

"Man is a clever animal who
behaves like an imbecile."
- Albert Schweitzer