Beppino Englaro Quotes & Sayings

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this. — Richard P. Feynman

In the humanist world following Erasmus, man is at the centre of the universe. Man becomes largely responsible for his own destiny, behaviour and future. This is the new current of thought which finds its manifestation in the writing of the 1590s and the decades which follow. The euphoria of Elizabeth's global affirmation of authority was undermined in these years by intimations of mortality: in 1590 she was 57 years old. No one could tell how much longer her golden age would last; hence, in part, Spenser's attempts to analyse and encapsulate that glory in an epic of the age. This concern about the death of a monarch who - as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen - was both symbol and totem, underscores the deeper realisation that mortality is central to life. After the Reformation, the certainties of heaven and hell were less clear, more debatable, more uncertain. — Ronald Carter

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through. — Mary Lou Williams

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction. — Gene Tierney

If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual. — John Oliver

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important. — Gail Carson Levine

I think I'll get a nut roast. Maybe a nut roast is too lesbian? — Jackie Kay

When man's freedom equals zero, he commits no crimes. That is clear. The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom. And now, just as we have gotten rid of it (on the cosmic scale, centuries are, of course, no more than "just"), some wretched halfwits ... — Yevgeny Zamyatin

We are Indians, firstly and lastly. — B.R. Ambedkar

Successful people go through fear to get to where they are. — Saji Ijiyemi