#Smart Quotes #Mean Quotes
“If I don't believe in Jesus, maybe I don't believe in Hell. Did you ever think of that? You're so excited about it, why don't you go to Hell? It's your concept; you invented it.”
“And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. [...] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.”
“I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.”
Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster
“Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.”
Source : "What Has Government Done to Our Money?". Book by Murray Rothbard, 1980.
“Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.”
“The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.”
“You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?”
“There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell”
Aeschylus Dramatist
Aristotle Philosopher
Herodotus Historian
Hesiod Poet
Ovid Poet
Plato Philosopher
Socrates Philosopher
Sophocles Playwright
Virgil Poet