A Man

His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, "This was a man."
--William Shakespeare

Existed

Was the bicycle invented or discovered? It's such a pure concept, it seems like it existed in the universe even before people thought of it, like the wheel itself, or a prime number.
--Andy Ruina (professor of mechanical engineering, Cornell University)

Solidarity

Placing an exclusive stress on the expansion of rights and freedoms of individuals by disregarding or underrating the concomitant rise of individual responsibilities brings about social pathologies. They undermine solidarity as the glue of social life.
--Nikolai Genov (sociologist)

Happen

In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
--Rudi Dornbusch (German economist)

For Us

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
--T. S. Eliot

Change

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
--Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Try Something

The country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

Uncomfortable

I'm a very uncomfortable person. I really like people, and I also don't always know what to do with them.
--Stephen Colbert

Broken

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
--Tennessee Williams

Mistake

To think of humans as freedom-loving, you must be ready to view nearly all of history as a mistake.
--John Gray

Cut Up

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
--C.S. Lewis

Rich

When a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him: "Whose?"
--Don Marquis

Fundamentalism

I am not actively hostile to religion except to religious fundamentalism, which is both evil and ignorant.
--Jimbo Seattle

Revenge

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
--Marcus Aurelius

Capable

We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.
--Pema Chödrön

Fleeting

Truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

Homage

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
--François, Duc de La Rouchefoucauld

Like Anything Else

Like anything else, you do it long enough, you will take it for granted, or there will be aspects of it that are grinding.
--Jon Stewart

Maybe

Do you have any idea what year it is? Did you fall down, hit your head, and think you woke up in the 1950's or the 1890's? Should we call for a doctor? Because I simply cannot believe that in the year 2015, the United States Senate would be spending its time trying to defund women's health care centers. You know, on second thought, maybe I shouldn't be that surprised.
--Senator Elizabeth Warren (speech on the Senate floor, August 3, 2015)

Pacified

Infrastructure crumbles, wealth flies upward, and we are pacified and distracted by lots of media.
--Portia Massachusetts

Trash

When you wonder why you don't feel good about the cultural stuff--well, it's because you are consuming trash. It's actually not designed to make you feel good. It's designed to addict you. It's designed to keep you clicking on those links--that one leads to another fun list, like "10 major talk-show fails."
--Jason Segel