"We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill."

-- H. G. Wells

#Skills Quotes #Creative Quotes #World Quotes

“After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.”
“A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.”
“[ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be a Christian, you try to come from that tradition of the Jewish prophets and then Christ and everything since. That becomes your handbook. "Witness" is the key word. You witness against the injustice, against the atrocity, against the heavy-handedness, and all the rest. We try to make a statement to other people, and we try to say it's your responsibility, too.”

Source : Source: law-journals-books.vlex.com
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”
“I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.”

Source : "Arsène Wenger may well spend heavily for Arsenal in transfer market" by Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2014.
“Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone to a joust. Especially not in a subterranean burial chamber. All right, I said uncertainly. But won't we be needing horses for that? Not horses, he replied, stepping away from his throne. Birds.”
“Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.”

Source : Langdon Gilkey, Langdon Brown Gilkey (1985). “Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock”, p.11, University of Virginia Press
“We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.”

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