The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
Richard Dawkins

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
Jackie Kennedy

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
R. Lee Ermey

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
George W. Bush

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
John Steinbeck

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
John Steinbeck

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan Watts

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Bette Davis

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Jung

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
William Glasser

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
William Glasser

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
Albert Ellis

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'
Bill Maher