Bayes Achievement Quotes & Sayings

Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table. — Sam Kean

Pride achieves almost nothing but destroys a lot. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed ... " I suppose it was at such a moment that Thomas Aquinas said of all his own theology, "It reminds me of straw. — C.S. Lewis

No. Sometimes you can just tell things by looking at people, though. When she looks at you, she's scared. When you look at her, you're scared. Maybe you guys should stop fighting things separately because it makes you scared. If you fight them together, who knows, you might find some courage. — Lily Harper Hart

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water. — Shashi Tharoor

He's the kind of man who if you gave him a gun and told him he had two choices - "shoot one of your dogs or shoot yourself in the head" - he'd put the gun to his ear and pull the trigger."
"Hell, Jules, you'd do the same thing if someone did that to you and your goddamned cats," Blake said in amusement.
"No," Julian murmured with a shake of his head. "No, there's a third option. People like us, we're third-option people. We take the gun, stuff it in the person's mouth, and eliminate the problem. Walk off into the sunset with our kitty. — Abigail Roux

Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. — P. J. O'Rourke

Hope is like the Sun. When it's behind the clouds, it's not gone. You just have to find it!
- Matthew, Age 11, Lanoka Harbor, New Jersey, March 21 — R.J. Palacio

I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes. — Adam Rapp

The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily. — Ted Sizer