Anceints Quotes & Sayings

I've always been pretty good at remembering the details about certain things. — Chris Jericho

Eating industrial meat takes an almost heroic act of not knowing or, — Michael Pollan

The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial? — John Perry

Management isn't doing - it's seeing that it gets done. Following — Loren B. Belker

The mind is the center of all attractions. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How sad is it that in my world a human killer would be the best-case scenario? — Sierra Dean

Close your eyes. Now see the world with your mind, and feel the joy of your magnificent life. — Debasish Mridha

Bake and toast 'em, fry and roast 'em! till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; till hair smells and skins crack, fat melts, and bones black in cinders lie beneath the sky! So dwarves shall die, — J.R.R. Tolkien

We tend to mix genders when we arrange ourselves around a table for meetings. A sort of accommodation is made by the men for the women: they make space for us. they are ever-so-slightly polite, we are ever-so-slightly grateful. When we stand up at the end of a meeting, we all give ourselves a metaphorical shake that is only partly the relief of having concluded our business: we are all released from the effort of fitting ourselves together.
When men speak in these meetings, women relax; when women speak, men grow tense. I have the impression that they never know what a woman is going to say, whereas they are reasonably sure what a man will address himself to and how he will do it. So are the women; for them, too, men tend to be predictable. Women listen to women with a different kind of attention, and part of it may be loyalty to our gender; we want all of us to do well, as if we have the esprit de corps of subalterns among generals. — Anne Truitt

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness. — Jane Fonda

The reality is the majority of people are talking about it, but haven't launched it. — Suranga Chandratillake

Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. — Frank A. Clark

And he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart. — Jodi Picoult

Um," Starflight said as a horrifying thought struck him. "There's no chance this volcano is about to erupt, is there? — Tui T. Sutherland

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.
Art is a casual pursuit of significance.
Let's keep it in perspective. — Vera Nazarian