Considreable Quotes & Sayings

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles. Hence, if a man suddenly finds himself in an unusually happy position, it will in most cases result in his being sympathetic and kind. But if he has never been in any other than a happy position, or this becomes his permanent state, the effect of it is often just the contrary: it so far removes him from suffering that he is incapable of feeling any more sympathy with it. So it is that the poor often show themselves more ready to help than the rich. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. — Horace Bushnell

Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them. — Bill Shankly

A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles ... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject? — John G. Kemeny

Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter! — Bartholomew Roberts

We're so few in comparison to the past, where did all the souls go? — Paolo Bacigalupi

Peace is not the absence of intolerance
Peace is a way of life with joy of tolerance. — Debasish Mridha

Action is the antidote to despair. — Joan Baez

If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club. — Marillyn Hewson

Why hyphenate, why parenthesize, unless absolutely necessary? — Margaret Atwood

The well-being of the British people and the health of our economy are far more important than any government's commitment to a particular strategy, but to change course now would be fatal to the whole counter-inflation strategy. — Geoffrey Howe

AUTOSUGGESTION is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or, by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into this rich garden of the mind. — Napoleon Hill

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse. — Ellen Hopkins

Leviathan is not the biggest fish; - I have heard of Krakens. — Herman Melville

It was a long hard bumpy road, but this great country kept me inspired with its beauty, character, and spirit, driving me to keep marching on and devoted to sing about its people and places that make Canada the greatest country in the world, — Stompin' Tom Connors

Art never comes from happiness. — Chuck Palahniuk