I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible

That’s funny, you’re funny. I like you, I’m quite taken by you.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

[on singer Cass Elliot] It’s the timbre of her voice and also her attitude and being a big woman like that and being confident. I’m very attracted to that sort of confidence and individuality. She was cool.

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.

It seems strange to many people that I should be impressed by the wonders and beauties of Niagara. They are always asking: ‘what does this beauty or that music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?’ In the most evident sense they mean everything.

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.

When one side only of a story is heard, and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it, insensibly.

I’m very impressed with ‘Drive.’

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

It is easy to propose impossible remedies.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love

I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, ‘And the sun stood still… and hasted not to go down about a whole day’ (Joshua x. 13) and ‘He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time’ (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.