Counsels Of Yore Quotes & Sayings

I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true. — Ernest O. Lawrence

It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes. — Ludivine Sagnier

Don't you mean, witch? — Marianne Willis

Intimidated?"
His head shook once. "Intrigued."
"Irritated?"
His eyes investigated me again. It felt intrusive, definitely not cursory. "Impressed. — Nicole Williams

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion. — Tacitus

I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to care for, to call her own, she helped out at the store, then came home and sat in her big chair and stared at her magazines, not at them but through them, she let the dust accumulate on her shoulders. — Jonathan Safran Foer

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up. — Clive Owen

During the Government's recent overhaul of GCSEs, I was asked to join a consultative group advising on the English Literature syllabus. It quickly became clear that the minister wanted to prescribe two Shakespeare plays for every 16-year-old in the land. I argued, to the contrary, that there should be one Shakespeare play and one play by anybody except Shakespeare. It cannot be in Shakespeare's interest for teenagers to associate him with compulsion, for his plays and his alone to have the dreaded status of set books. — Jonathan Bate