top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic."
Standard
Customized
More
"I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Rachel crossed her arms. "And the other three Oracles? I'm sure none of them was a beautiful young priestess whom you praised for her "what was it?" 'scintillating conversation'?"Ah" I wasn't sure why, but it felt like my acne was turning into live insects and crawling across my face. "Well, according to my extensive research-"Some books he flipped through last night, Meg clarified."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Brand-new truths are probably not Truths."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't like psychiatrists, Alecto told her. "Not because they don't think I'm real, but because they have no idea what they're doing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For the modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority. Say that a thing is so, according to the Pope or the Bible, and it will be dismissed as a superstition without examination. But preface your remark merely with "they say" or "don't you know that?" or try (and fail) to rememver the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is later found false, the latter rejects sound answers altogether and hashes itself useless."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Science is not a democracy. Therefore to try to pass of global warming as real just because "98% of scientists say they agree" makes no sense at all. If 98% of psychiatrists said that all mentally ill people needed lobotomized, does that make it true? If 98% of your friends jumped off a building, would you jump, too?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Round numbers are always false."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One shouldn't be labelled a cynic just because one refuses to believe in fairy tales."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Never trust a high altitude astronomer."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing."
Judgment
"I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area."
Leadership
"When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose."
Purpose
"My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice."
History
"The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal."
War
"You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment."
Dream
"I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress."
Intelligence
"Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies."
Democracy
"I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case."
Friendship
"We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability."
People
bottom of page