Categories Starting with “S”

“Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“The Moon stabilizes Earth's obliquity. Well, almost. The tilt actually varies between 22 and 24.5 degrees - and the variation is enough to induce such environmental inconveniences as the occasional ice age. Without the Moon, it might be much worse.”

— Seth Shostak

“The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect.”

— Steven Pinker

“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”

— Bernard Shaw

“Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.”

— Jordan Peterson

“The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.”

— Voltaire

“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”

— Blaise Pascal

“I restore myself when I'm alone.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”

— Anne Frank

“Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“To be honest, I hate silence.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”

— Lao Tzu

“It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.”

— Douglas Coupland

“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.”

— Peter Drucker

“I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

“Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.”

— Gloria Steinem

“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.”

— Anton Chekhov

“When I see the crumbling roads and bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories moving overseas to Mexico, or to other countries, I know these problems can all be fixed, but not by Hillary Clinton - only by me.”

— Donald Trump

“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Trump's hobbled vocabulary is now the incontestable stuff of comedy: not just how few his words but how narrow their range, from boastful to irked and back again. For satirists and impressionists, a president who addresses the American people in abbreviated tweetspeak is a gift.”

— Howard Jacobson

“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”

— Victor Hugo

“The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Nature has always had more force than education.”

— Voltaire

“The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious.”

— Jordan Peterson

“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.”

— Plato

“A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.”

— John F. Kennedy