Antony Beevor Spanish Civil War Quotes & Sayings

In our dreams the ageless perils, gargoyles, trials, secret helpers, and instructive figures are nightly still encountered; and in their forms we may see reflected not only the whole picture of our present case, but also the clue to what we must do to be saved. — Joseph Campbell

The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science — Susan Wojcicki

The universe is full of energy, but much of it is at equilibrium. At equilibrium no energy can flow, and therefore it cannot be used for work, any more than the level waters of a pond can be used to drive a water-wheel. It is on the flow of energy out of equilibrium - the small fraction of "useful" energy, "exergy" - that life depends. — Arthur C. Clarke

If you need anything, let me know,' he said. Stop talking to me. — Durjoy Datta

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art. — Antony Gormley

Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend. — David Hume

You're exquisite," he breathed. — Sarah J. Maas

The only right you have with anyone in life is to the right to walk away. — James S.A. Corey

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw — Robert A. Heinlein

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category. — Iain McGilchrist

Though I no longer lived with Jessie, this city itself was a constant reminder of my mother, the beatings, the molestation, and the attempted suicide. — Jessica N. Watkins

All of us have problems. We face them every day. How grateful I am that we have difficult things to wrestle with. They keep us young, they keep us alive, they keep us going, they keep us humble. Be grateful for your problems, and know that somehow there will come a solution. Just do the best you can, but be sure it is the very best. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde