Enchantress Of Numbers Quotes & Sayings

In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits. — Roy Chapman Andrews

Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity. — Tim O'Brien

To have a spirit of excellence gives you the courage to accept large and small tasks and also strive to learn from our mistakes. — Euginia Herlihy

Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem. — Pearl Zhu

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. — Sonia Sotomayor

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution. — Raymond E. Feist

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible
its multitudinous Charlatans
everything in short but
the Enchantress of Numbers. — Ada Lovelace

Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death. — Terry Pratchett

Waiting at the wrong place, most like. — Donna Tartt

He who obeys the command 'Rejoice in the Lord' has a Hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night. — A.C. Dixon

The only decisions I'm making at the moment are whether I have tea, coffee, toast or cornflakes in the morning. — Sam Allardyce

I read to learn. I teach to understand. I practice to gain experience and wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

I wasn't a big fan of women trying to fix men, to change them. I always figured there were guys enough out there, so I should look for a total package that was already fully Ikea-assembled - or go without. — Kresley Cole

All journeys begin in our minds and not on the road. — Debasish Mridha

The sense that everything is poetical is a thing solid and absolute; it is not a mere matter of phraseology or persuasion. It is not merely true, it is ascertainable. — G.K. Chesterton