"Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity."

“I was never really a comic-book fanatic.”

“The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored.”

Source : "Industrial Engineering". An Address Delivered at the Purdue University, February 24, 1905.

“The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torchbearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.”

Source : "Napoleon".

“As fast as we're going these days, especially because of the aerodynamics, we're all concerned about abusing tires. It's so fast that you're afraid of what you're going to do to the tires.”

“I learned what love is from loving you.”

“Let us be sad; it is feeling that makes us human.”

“God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.”

“We were created to look at one another, weren't we?”

Source : "Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art". Book edited by Anna Gruetzner Robins, December 2000.