Georgy Lvov Quotes & Sayings

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.
(from a letter dated 25 May, 1694) — Isaac Newton

I hate it when you see talented teams with a lot of scorers and they can't get along with each other. — Gilbert Arenas

I won't make you promises again that I can't keep. Swear that, babe. So when I promise right now that I know where my head is at with you and I want us both to give this the best shot we can give it, you can believe that. — Kristen Ashley

I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about. — Ulysses S. Grant

And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history. — Anthony LaPaglia

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do. — Joe Flanigan

All it takes is one to stand where others fall. — Shannon Messenger

I used to get so worried that if a scene didn't go a certain way, then it was horrible. But then I realized that it was better to give the director options in the editing room than just being locked into how it's supposed to be. — Katie Holmes

Anyone who can be cool about his first visit to the Oval Office has lost so much body heat that rigor mortis is probably about to set in. — David Frum

I loved you, and my love had no return,
And therefore my true love has been my death. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together. — Theresa May

A people's legitimacy is derived from its artifacts. Even a relationship isn't a relationship unless it's left behind its trash. — Joshua Cohen

I could almost see the resignation on the old man's face. I knew he would draw a breath and sigh that I insisted on stacking all my pain in one pile, facing it all at once."
p. 480 Fitz about Chade — Robin Hobb