Bergen Evans Quotes
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
Bergen Evans
Quotes to Explore
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
Patrick Ness
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No matter who you are, no matter what your culture is, it is absolutely possible to look out and extend yourself in such a way, that you can connect to other people and find that we are more alike than we are different.
Oprah Winfrey
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If we have the kinds of confirmation that we need, we will once again work with the international community and the organization charged with monitoring compliance by the Syrian government, and we will reach out to patrons of Assad like Russia to put a stop to it.
Barack Obama
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I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
Paul Auster
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How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.
Albert Einstein
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In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.
Vittorio Gassman
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
William James
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If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs, of course it make us sedentary. We take years off our lives probably by sitting in chairs, but we like them because they're comfortable. You go to an African village, you find me a chair with a back. That's a rare thing out there.
Daniel Lieberman
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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Marian Wright Edelman
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I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.
Eddie Marsan