Failing Your Ny Resolution Quotes & Sayings

I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention which logic one adopts. I disagree with this view. — Karl Popper

We are often more merciful to our animals [cats] than we are to each other. — P.D. James

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't. — Antonio Machado

No man ever did me so much good, or enemy so much harm, but I repaid him with interest. — Sulla

More recent studies have recognized that the image of Jesus as law observant and promoting law observance is reflected not only in Matthew and Luke (Matt. 5.18; Luke 16.17; Matt. 23.23; Luke 11.42), but also deeply rooted in their common source Q and historically more plausible. The conflicts reported in the earliest traditions between Jesus and his contemporaries related not to the validity of biblical law but to its interpretation and where the emphasis should lie. Depictions of his trial give no hint that people heard Jesus as rejecting the law. — William Loader

I had read four thousand pages of letters by Lawrence and I wanted thousands of pages more... I wanted them not to end. And yet, at the same time that I was wishing they would not come to an end, I was hurrying through these books because however much you are enjoying a book, however much you want it never to end, you are always eager for it to end. However much you are enjoying a book you are always flicking to the end, counting to see how many pages are left, looking forward to the time when you can put the book down and have done with it. At the back of our minds, however much we are enjoying a book, we come to the end of it and some little voice is always saying, "Thank Christ for that! — Geoff Dyer

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with. — Paddy Considine

I've got my wife. I've got my four kids. I've got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It's all you need. I'd rather have three really good friends than 20 good friends. — David Beckham

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try — Mary Stewart

Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions. — Frances Beinecke

Just as a primitive sextant functions on the illusion that the sun and stars rotate around the planet we are standing on, our senses give us the illusion of stability in the universe, and we accept it, because without that acceptance, nothing can be done. Virginia — Richard K. Morgan

Injustice, large and small, was like sour, moldy bread. Consumed often enough, it brought on hunger for the meat of revenge. — B.V. Lawson

I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong. — Alan Arkin

In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade. — Vera Rubin