Goalline Pile Quotes & Sayings

Johannes Kepler described his motivation thus: 'The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order which has been imposed on it by God, and which he revealed to us in the language of mathematics. — John C. Lennox

Next-generation technology, she thought. A few extra processors, and it starts getting a high opinion of itself. — K.B. Spangler

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word. — Emma Lazarus

They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world. — Ivo Andric

I love this world, even as I hear the great wind of leaving it rising, for there is a grainy taste I prefer to every idea of heaven: human friendship. — Rumi

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go. — Garth Risk Hallberg

In life, there are those who save us, both in big ways and in small. — Mia Sheridan

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul ... — Marguerite Yourcenar

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation? — Barbara Deming

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events. — James Geary

If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it. — Erykah Badu

Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped. — Cathleen Schine

Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell. — Bruce Barton