Armidale Class Quotes & Sayings

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. — Arthur C. Clarke

But he had once told Watson that the "less or fewer" issue, along with the use of "I" in such sentences as "He gave the money to Sheila and I", inflicted on the public by people who considered themselves well-educated, could be drastically reduced in frequency - if not actually abolished - by a few well-aimed pistol shots and an explanatory note that would be pinned to the victims' chests. — Dan Simmons

Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep. — Shannon Hale

With every action theres an equal opposite reaction,with every problem theres a solution just a matter of taking action — Albert Einstein

Then, madam, they do nothing." Albert Einstein once said, "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." Economics is long overdue for the kind of radical shift in thinking that Einstein brought to his field of physics. Does Gross National Happiness represent such a breakthrough? — Eric Weiner

I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers. — Jules Verne

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

My friend you must understand that time forks perpetually into countless futures. And in at least one of them I have become your enemy. Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941) — Adrian McKinty

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore. — Annie Proulx

Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy. — Henry A. Kissinger

The telephone voice is but a seduction, a bread crumb to an appetite. — Mitch Albom

Let me close as I did in Gander on September 11, 2002 when I went to that community to thank the people of Gander and the people of Canada for the overwhelming support and help that was given to us in the wake of those attacks on September 11, 2001. — Paul Cellucci