Many Formula One races last two hours, are really boring and nothing happens. Felipe Massa Read Quote
I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities. Mark Spitz Read Quote
When there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, it’s hard to keep things going. Joe Sestak Read Quote
War is, in fact, an extension of politics, and in any war, military operations have to be conducted in such a way that they contribute to sustainable political outcomes consistent with vital interests that are at stake in that war. H. R. McMaster Read Quote
The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic. Joseph Brodsky Read Quote
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn’t considered pathological, we are outside of time. Richard Powers Read Quote
I’m not interested in the heroes or the villains. I’m interested in playing people. Anson Mount Read Quote
We give money to the E.U. and they give it back according to the priorities they choose, with an unelected group of people choosing those priorities. Munira Mirza Read Quote
Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community. Malcolm Gladwell Read Quote
