ekallevik’s most recent Quotables

Walking on water wasn't built in a day

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

To me, privacy is nothing if not the freedom to be let alone, to experiment and to make mistakes, to forget and to start anew, to act according to conscience, and to be free from the oppressive scrutiny and opinions of others.

To fall in love is easy, to stay in love is not.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

"He is richest who wants least."

“A good friend will find time on his calendar, a great friend never checks.”

“I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better.”

I hope you live a life you are proud of.

If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

A Person Becomes Old When His Mind Is More Occupied by Memories Than Aspirations

There's poetry in the real world; science is the poetry of reality.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.