Edward Lowbury Quotes & Sayings

...our low regard for nostalgia often seems not to rest on some substantive standard of excellence, in light of which a preference for the past is seen as missing the mark, but rather expresses idolatry of the present. This kind of "forward-thinking" is at bottom an apologetic species of conservatism, as it defers to and celebrates whatever is currently ascendant. — Matthew B. Crawford

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young. — Baltasar Gracian

Don't kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily — Maya Angelou

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more. — Paul Dourish

I had learned from Kantos Kan the secret of opening these gates, and in another moment my twenty great fighting men stood within the doomed city of Zodanga. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

If you want to be happy in life, keep all of your commitments and don't expect other people to keep any of theirs. — Roger Delano Hinkins

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out. — Naomi Campbell