Ashenden Maugham Quotes & Sayings

Dewey believed that education has a practical function and should not be seen as a series of pointless hurdles to jump over before 'real life' begins. Education isn't a preamble to life; it's part of life, and it exists to solve practical human problems and meet human needs. — Gregory Bassham

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi racial anti-Semitism. By concentrating on the history of the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life, Heschel describes in forceful detail the Nazification of all aspects of Protestant theology, including the Aryanization of Jesus himself. This is a highly original and important contribution to our understanding of the Third Reich. — Saul Friedlander

Love is a spirit all compact of fire. — William Shakespeare

I know that some of the characters I played were trash. But then, I chose to take up those roles, as I enjoyed doing them. — Anupam Kher

Ashenden was in the habit of asserting that he was never bored. It was one of his notions that only such persons were as had no resources in themselves and it was but the stupid that depended on the outside world for their amusement.
[Giulia Lazzari] — W. Somerset Maugham

Envy aims very high. — Ovid

Justice as fairness provides what we want. — John Rawls

Oh, come on. People see ghosts all the time." "That's because people, by and large, are whacked. — J.D. Robb

Why is it that all men who have become outstanding in philosophy, statesmanship, poetry or the arts are melancholic, — Joshua Wolf Shenk

I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her. — Kay Panabaker

It is very hard for a man, however modest, to grasp the possibility that a woman who has once loved him may love him no longer ... — W. Somerset Maugham

Make decisions you can live with. You're the only one you have to live with the rest of your life. — Mitchell S. Karnes

President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams. — Jonathan Kozol

I think all the beer I drank in college created an iron bladder. — Steve Wiebe

A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado. — Kip Thorne

Mr Harrington was a bore. He exasperated Ashenden, and enraged him; he got on his nerves, and drove him to frenzy. But Ashenden did not dislike him. His self-satisfaction was enormous but so ingenuous that you could not resent it; his conceit was so childlike that you could only smile at it. — W. Somerset Maugham