“He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.”
Michael Crichton book Jurassic Park
Source: Jurassic Park
Source: Smooth Talking Stranger
“He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.”
Michael Crichton book Jurassic Park
Source: Jurassic Park
Heidi Klum (1973) German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and actress
Responding to Karl Lagerfeld's insult that Heidi Klum is unknown in the high fashion world. Quoted in Page Six Magazine, 10 September 2009 http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2009/09/08/heidi-klum-for-page-six-magazine.
“He had learned self-control in a hard school. He had been married for thirty years.”
Glen Cook book The Silver Spike
Source: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 26 (p. 528)
“He wanted what he didn’t know and he didn’t know how to get what he wanted.’ (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Acheron
Zooey Deschanel (1980) American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter
"Lingering Still".
Volume Two (2010)
“He knows what he wants, he's a good Jesuit, and the Jesuits know exactly what they want.”
Oswald Gracias (1944) Catholic cardinal
Source: Cardinal Gracias: curial reform is nearing the 'end of the tunnel' https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/36820/cardinal-gracias-curial-reform-is-nearing-the-end-of-the-tunnel (14 September 2017)
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: I want you to understand what has been done in the world to force men to think alike. It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike. Why did he not do so? Why did he make your brain so that you could not by any possibility be a Methodist? Why did he make yours so that you could not be a Catholic? And why did he make the brain of another so that he is an unbeliever — why the brain of another so that he became a Mohammedan — if he wanted us all to believe alike?
After all, maybe Nature is good enough and grand enough and broad enough to give us the diversity born of liberty. Maybe, after all, it would not be best for us all to be just the same. What a stupid world, if everybody said yes to everything that everybody else might say.
The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes — more important than gold or houses or lands — more important than art or science — more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.
Larry Bird (1956) basketball player and coach
Magic Johnson — reported in David Steele (May 9, 1997) "Magic Says Bird Will Succeed", San Francisco Chronicle, p. B8.
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