Axioms End Quotes & Sayings

One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like, "Fine! I like my room! All my imagination and toys are in my room!" I will never forget that. And she will never forget that. — Elizabeth Olsen

The only thing that can stop you is you ... Stay focused and never mind any of the crap anybody says. That's not you, that's them. That's the negative place they want to live in. You choose to live in a positive place. - Scooter Braun — Justin Bieber

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now. — Brian Aldiss

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency. — Avi Lewis

I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions. — Steven Rodney McQueen

Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if someone stands out, it's no big deal because diversity is respected and expected. To the Amish, there's no room for deviation from the norm. It's important to fit in, because that similarity of identity is what defines the society. If you don't fit in, the consequences are psychological tragic, you stand alone when all you've ever known is being part of the group. — Jodi Picoult

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge. — Rick Bayan

Stocks may come and stocks may go, but food goes on forever. — Beatrice Fairfax

Nothing is a waste of time unless you think it is. — Marty Rubin

One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example. — William Stanley Jevons

For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems. — Michael Frayn

Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made. — Saint Augustine

He took the necklace out of the box and carefully fastened it around her neck. Just like he'd imagined himself doing when he bought it. That might even be why he bought it - so he'd have this moment, under her hair. He ran his fingertips along the chain and settled the pendant on her throat. — Rainbow Rowell

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows. — James Bryce

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray. — Jacqueline Novogratz

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble. — Tom Freston

Like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. — Homer