Anguss Quotes & Sayings

"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To endow research is merely to encourage the research for endowment; the true man of science will not be held back by poverty, and if science is of use to us, it will pay for itself." Such are but a few samples of the conflict of opinion which we find raging around us. — Karl Pearson

That our path was hard does not mean it was not also right, nor that it is not paved with blessings. — Nancy Moser

Aristotle believed democracy could exist only because of slavery, which gave citizens the leisure for higher pursuits. (Modern versions of this argument held that American democracy was born of the slave society of rural Virginia, because slavery gave men like Washington and Jefferson the free time to better themselves and to participate in representative government.) — Tom Reiss

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness. — Edith Wharton

While I don't have to leave home to find God's oasis, I do have to search for it, pursuing God in prayer and trusting Him to take care of me when all other hope is gone. He promised that "If ... you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deuteronomy 4:29). — Lynn Austin

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted. — Michel De Montaigne

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive. — Helen Reddy

It is better to risk starving to death than giving up on your dream. If you have given up on your dream, what's left? — Manoj Arora

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. — Henry Adams

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door. — John Grisham

What are you doing, meditating?"
"No, I'm trying to calm down so I don't kick your ass," she said through clenched teeth. — Stacey Kade

Bruised knees cramp my style.
They scream cheap whore,
when I am an expensive one. — Asa Akira