Carl Stumpf Quotes & Sayings

Do not go to that place of horror with elevated spirits, and gay hearts, for death is there! Justice and judgment are there! The power of government, displayed in its most awful form, is there . . . The person who can go and look on death merely to gratify an idle humor is destitute both of humanity and piety. — Jon Ronson

Percy, explaining things to you is like lecturing a gerbil. — Rick Riordan

Wait, I will come with you.' Then they recognized his voice and waited, and when he came up to them suddenly his bearskin fell off, and he stood there a handsome man, clothed all — Jacob Grimm

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made. — Jean Paul

Multiculturalism helps immigrants postpone the pain of letting go of the anachronistic and inappropriate. It locks people into corrupt, inefficient, and unjust social systems, even if it does preserve their arts and crafts. It perpetuates poverty, misery, and abuse. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves. — Stephen Downes

The horse, it must be said, was quite surprised. — Douglas Adams

Eros aimed one of his arrows at Medea, and drove it into her heart, up to the feathers. — Robert Graves

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing. — Cyril Cusack

I want to see a new system. I believe that the credit scoring system is broken. That's my belief. — Suze Orman

Not for a minute did I believe that this wasn't goodbye. Still, I had loved and been loved in return, and there was nothing greater than that. It far outweighed the alienation of all the previous years.
Bones thought five months was too short; I was amazed I'd been granted joy for so long.
"I love you," he moaned, or maybe I said it. I couldn't tell the difference anymore. The lines had
dissolved between us. — Jeaniene Frost

If you're going to be an entrepreneur ... it's not all textbook. It's gut feeling, it's intuition, it's a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality ... — Wayne Huizenga

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. — Quintilian

I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate.' A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes. 'For one thing it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time saying anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to. — J.R.R. Tolkien