_Quotes

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. - James A. Froude, Oceana, or, England and Her Colonies (1886) [C. Scribner's Sons, 1972, ISBN 083699096X, 9780836990966, 396 pages], p. 67 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Anthony_Froude

Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul. - Grand Inquisitor Silecio, in The Fountain, screenplay by Darren Aronofsky. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Death

It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial. - Isaac Asimov, The Beginning and the End (1977) as quoted in Todd Siler, Breaking the Mind Barrier (1997) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mind

Within the woods, Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce cast A shade, gray circles of anemones Danced on their stalks. - William Cullen Bryant, The Old Man's Counsel. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Flowers#Anemone

Der Glaube an eine bestimmte Idee gibt dem Forscher den Rückhalt für seine Arbeit. Ohne diesen Glauben wäre er verloren in einem Meer von Zweifeln und halbgültigen Beweisen. Translation: The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs. - Konrad Zuse Attributed in Konrad Zuse on "Die Erfindergalerie", dpma.de, 2008 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur. Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. - Cicero, Tusculanarum Disputationum, I. 45 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Glory

I know there is a God — I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it — if he has a place then I am ready — we see the hand. - John F. Kennedy paraphrasing a statement by Abraham Lincoln; quoted in The New York Times (15 May 1964) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Storm