"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
—John Adams
"Definition of courage: 'Grace under pressure.'"
—Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"But what we suffer from to-day is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never ment to be. A man was ment to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about truth; this has been exactly reversed."
—G. K. Chesterton
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"
—Rudyard Kipling
"The history of things that didn't happen has never been written."
—Henry Kissinger
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to
function."
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who
reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he
whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
—Thomas Jefferson
"Everyone who comes in here wants three things:
(1) They want it quick.
(2) They want it good.
(3) They want it cheap.
I tell 'em to pick two and call me back.
—sign on the back wall of a small printing company (taken off an email
sig)