B2aaa Quotes & Sayings

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible. — Aristotle.

It is pure potential. Every ball or skein of yarn holds something inside it, and the great mystery of what that might be can be almost spiritual — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It wasn't the high thin mountain air that took our breath away. Those stone steps led us up to a place unlike any other on earth. We were overcome by the vision spread out before us; a purely mystical embodiment of space, time, setting, and silence. Up here the noise of our fellow travelers was strangely absent, muffled beneath a mantle of quiet that permeated the mountaintop city. No one was immune. In that first view, in that first moment, every visitor absorbed the essence of Machu Picchu in reverent stillness. — George L. Ayers

A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing. — H.G.Wells

One the stuff hits the fan ... swirl a pair of (Chinese) stress balls. — Shade Aura Melanson

I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together. — Paul Watson

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed. — Henry James

I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have. — Dionne Warwick