Forwood Quotes & Sayings

I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the Lord made clear His plans for me. — Glen Duncan

If you ask anybody about their life, usually the first thing they talk about is how their wife is doing, how their kids are, they don't usually say "My job, my job, my job". It's really true. It's usually about your family. — Julianne Moore

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone. — Louis Leakey

Chevron, for example, has a decision-analysis group whose members facilitate decision-framing workshops; coordinate data gathering for analysis; build and refine economic and analytical models; help project managers and decision makers interpret analyses; point out when additional information and analysis would improve a decision; conduct an assessment of decision quality; and coach decision makers. — Harvard Business School Press

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong. — Jimmy Savile

If you're happy all of the time, it's difficult to acknowledge when you actually are happy. — Robert Pattinson

We live in the present but we relate to our origins; we have an indisputable identity but we valorize it through the identity of our ancestors. That all this belongs to the realm of the historical and political imaginary does not mean that it is without significance: quite the contrary. In strict reality we are separated from the distant past, but by its imaginary actualization the past becomes a great force in the present. — Lucian Boia

Up close, I see that his eyes are brown. Dark, dark brown. Nearly black.
Sinful. — M. Leighton

We start out as pretty creative beings ... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment. — Harvey MacKay

Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies. — Jonathan Zittrain

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance. — E. V. Lucas

Every day can be better than those before it if we have the courage to make it so. — Cordellya Smith

This was the pivotal insight of the Scientific Revolution: that the advancement of knowledge depends on current theories collapsing in the face of new insights and discoveries. In this model of progress, errors do not lead us away from the truth. Instead, they edge us incrementally toward it. — Kathryn Schulz