Admiral Trench Quotes & Sayings

Nevertheless his prodigious intellectual powers persisted unabated. In 1696, the Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli challenged his colleagues to solve an unresolved issue called the brachistochrone problem, specifying the curve connecting two points displaced from each other laterally, along which a body, acted upon only by gravity, would fall in the shortest time. — Carl Sagan

Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other. — Sallie Tisdale

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena. — Anson Dorrance

everyone smiles in the same language. — Anonymous

Familiarity does breed contempt; - doesn't it? — Anthony Trollope

I really don't crave literary immortality - I will achieve life through my bloodline as a vampire. All I want is to see my work in print. Is that so much to ask? — Szecsi Noemi

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist. — Hayao Miyazaki

What you get free costs too much. — Jean Anouilh

If you only knew the beauty of who you are, would beg for more light to illuminate every corner of yourself — Ross Hostetter

If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years. — Edmund Burke

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it. — Johnny Depp

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. — Jane Wagner