Delegated Examining Quotes & Sayings

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long. — Charles William Eliot

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good. — Rupert Murdoch

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless. — Lord Byron

And when your wife is not the same person you fell in love with eight years ago, where exactly does that leave you? Do you try to get to know who she has become, and hope for the best? Or do you keep deceiving yourself in the hope that she might wake up one morning and have gone back to the woman she used to be? — Jodi Picoult

I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I've never needed a computer. I'm lucky that I have a job where I'm not required to use one. — Bill Nighy

I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot. — David Mackay

Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman. — Ernestine Rose

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. — Christopher Alexander

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag. — Shirley Hazzard

Perfection should never be your goal. Rather, let your goal be to make a difference, yet learning every step of the way. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

The Bible is useful because it opens our eyes, and because it's highly impractical to walk through life with our eyes closed. — Peter J. Leithart

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong. — Benjamin Graham

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. — Dave Eggers

The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.
In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks and
telephones, murder and assassination. — Marcus Sedgwick