Today Quotes
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If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.Benjamin Disraeli, speech, January 24, 1860
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.Frederick Langbridge
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991