Arbuthnots Quotes & Sayings

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all ... — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role. — Celia Imrie

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly ... — Johann Sebastian Bach

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels. — Jonathan Swift

When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom. — Tedd Tripp

I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds. — Philip Larkin

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years. — Jermaine Dupri

I am not a day dreamer, I am a believer, that after every painful love I have gone through, it is just an experience to crack open the deepest parts of my core and allow to me to delve into a passion so rare, that I will find a love that was almost, never meant to be. — Nikki Rowe