Ballydoyle Quotes & Sayings

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face:
Four ways in court to win man's grace. — Roger Ascham

Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words. — V. I. Arnold

***LIVE THE LIFE TO FULLEST IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES**** — Kaur

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty! — Will Rogers

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take. — Sir John Davies

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true. — Charles Baudelaire

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. — Lisa See

Really, is there a ruder thing to do than put someone down based on what she reads? It's a classist, obnoxious, and utterly grotesque use of energy. — Sarah Wendell

His fingers spread and twitch as he feels several reverberating points on the map of his awareness: his fellow slaves. He cannot free them, not in the practical sense. He's tried before and failed. He can, however, make their suffering serve a cause greater than one city's hubris, and one empire's fear. — N.K. Jemisin

No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her. — Suzanne Collins

Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting. — Tariq Ali

This vision is always available to us; it doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, or a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illumined. Once we contact our capacity for love and happiness - the good - the light has been turned on. Practicing the brahma-viharas is a way of turning on the light and then tending it. It is a process of deep spiritual transformation. — Sharon Salzberg

Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell ... That's the only way to protect yourself ... to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission. — Matt Rees

Whoever pays should control; whoever pays should sanction. I agree. But budgetary union should be completed by a partial mutualisation of debts through eurobonds. — Francois Hollande

One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe. — John Muir