C.P. Snow Quotes

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.

The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.

Zeroth law: You must play the game First law: You can't win Second law: You can't break even Third law: You can't quit the game.

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday

If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord...always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is the duty of every Latter-day Saint to cultivate a spirit of gratitude.

It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.

There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Winter is coming, we know what's coming with it. We can learn to live with the wildlings, or we can add them to the army of the dead.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

I want to fight for the side that fights for the living. Did I come to the right place?

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. Who knows?

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.

Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour" of China. Yet undeniably you feel a certain force of destiny in him.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.

He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan.

Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.

I'm a firm believer in the hustle game.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.