Gesta Danorum Quotes & Sayings

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all. — G.H. Hardy

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. — Richard Russo

I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good. — Sherwin B. Nuland

You name it, I'm interested in a lot of things. — Chris Hughes

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story. — Anthony De Mello

Writers are always selling somebody out. — Joan Didion

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy. — Franz Grillparzer

The readers of Luke's gospel, like most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality; the two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened than in what it meant. — Reza Aslan

About Miss Debenham," he said rather awkwardly. "You can take it from me that she's all right. She's a pukka sahib.
"What," asked Dr. Constantine with interest, "does a pukka sahib mean?"
"It means," said Poirot, "that Miss Debenham's father and brothers were at the same kind of school as Colonel Arbuthnot was."
"Oh!" said Dr. Constantine, disappointed. "Then it has nothing to do with the crime at all."
"Exactly," said Poirot. — Agatha Christie

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth. — David Platt

Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay. — Samora Machel