Detentions Dont Work Quotes & Sayings

The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated. — William Shockley

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash. — Rick Allen

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. — Jose Bergamin

Stillness does not mean the elimination of disturbances as much as a different way of viewing them. — Mark Epstein

charge of a six-person team that you belong to. You walked in just as I was daydreaming, and I didn't grasp the real situation at that moment." "But that moment was the realest of my life," protested Markus without thinking. It had come right out of his heart. — David Foenkinos

We should die relying on grace alone — Martin Luther

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game. — Moses Mendelssohn

You've got to understand one of the tricks of the modern mind, a tendency that most people obey without noticing it. In the village or suburb outside there's an inn with the sign of St. George and the Dragon. Now suppose I went about telling everybody that this was only a corruption of King George and the Dragoon. Scores of people would believe it, without any inquiry, from a vague feeling that it's probable because it's prosaic. It turns something romantic and legendary into something recent and ordinary. And that somehow makes it sound rational, though it is unsupported by reason. Of course some people would have the sense to remember having seen St. George in old Italian pictures and French romances, but a good many wouldn't think about it at all. They would just swallow the skepticism because it was skepticism. Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. That's exactly what has happened here. — G.K. Chesterton

The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods. — Eric Maskin

It's our duty to get them the things they need when they need it. And it's not happening. — Charlie Melancon

Success is not how much money you have in a bank. Success is how many lives you have touched. — Naveen Jain