Cdn The Funny Beaver Quotes & Sayings

The years between Roger Bacon's birth, in 1220, and Uthred's death, in 1370, are considered the final flowering of the Middle Ages. They were followed by a longer, grimmer period in Europe, during which the machinery for rooting out heresy defeated enlightened discourse almost completely. The early condemnation of works by William Ockham, Johannes Eckehart, the spiritual Franciscans, and Dante signaled the start of a breakdown in the integrity of Western thought. During this Great Interruption, xenophobia replaced curiosity, interest in Islam and the classics withered, and Muslim thought was anathematized or ignored. Fifty years later, it was no longer wise to learn Arabic, Hebrew, or even Greek. — Michael Wolfe

I'm just trying not to get run over. That's number one. Number two is you gotta catch the guy in front of ya. — Dale Earnhardt Jr.

I wanted this girl, entitled asshole that I was, but I didn't deserve her. — Annabel Joseph

There's a girl out there everyone thinks is dead and maybe she is because you know all the ways there are to kill a girl? I do. — Courtney Summers

I'm not the kind of guy who will pass someone without saying hello. If that's flaky, then I guess I'm flaky. — Joe Cowley

Who knows but the world may end tonight — Robert Browning

But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work. — John Ruskin

I wonder since when, I started yawning as I left my home for a match. I wonder since when I stopped feeling anything even when we won. The person who can win against me is me alone. But all I wanted was an opponent that I could go all out against. I've always wished for a tight game in which you couldn't tell if you'd win or lose...I am grateful to you Tetsu." ~ Daiki Aomine — Tadatoshi Fujimaki

Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are drawn to it by an interest in the capacities that make humans distinctive in the world. I am a philosopher of the latter sort. My work thus far has been clustered around the nexus of knowledge, communication, and human action. — Jason Stanley

If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning. — Warren Gatland

As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination. — Ed Helms

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play. — Shawnee Smith