Flammed Quotes & Sayings

A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles ... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject? — John G. Kemeny

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning. — Wilford Brimley

The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse. — Peter Hook

London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school. — Laura Mvula

A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish. — Robbie Keane

Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had. — Bob Goff

It would be either a very skilled or very unwise man to steal from an assassin." - Taliesin — Sabrina Zbasnik

Tikkun Olam. There is a Jewish legend behind this notion. Sometime early in the life of the world, something happened to shatter the light of the universe into countless pieces. They lodged as sparks inside every part of the creation. The highest human calling is to look for this original light from where we sit, to point to it and gather it up and in so doing to repair the world. This can sound like an idealistic and fanciful tale. But Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, who told it to me as her Hasidic grandfather told it to her, calls it an important and empowering story for our time. It insists that each one of us, flawed and inadequate as we may feel, has exactly what's needed to help repair the part of the world that we can see and touch. — Krista Tippett

There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong. — David Miliband

We must cultivate our garden.
Furia to God one day in seven allots;
The other six to scandal she devotes.
Satan, by false devotion never flammed,
Bets six to one, that Furia will be damned. — Horace Walpole