Hergenrother Uiuc Quotes & Sayings

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds. — Francesco Guicciardini

They sat and drank their pints. The tables in which their faces were dimly reflected were dark brown, the darkest brown, the colour of Bournville chocolate. The walls were a lighter brown, the colour of Dairy Milk. The carpet was brown, with little hexagons of a slightly different brown, if you looked closely. The ceiling was meant to be off-white, but was in fact brown, browned by the nicotine smoke of a million unfiltered cigarettes. Most of the cars in the car park were brown, as were most of the clothes worn by the patrons. Nobody in the pub really noticed the predominance of brown, or if they did, thought it worth remarking upon. These were brown times. — Jonathan Coe

The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood. — George B. McClellan

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience. — Jo Coudert

Just as the lame man at the pool of Bethesda needed someone stronger than himself to be healed (see John5:1-9), so we are dependent on the miracles of Christ's atonement if our souls are to be made whole from grief, sorrow, and sin — Merrill J. Bateman

As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society. — Elinor Ostrom

Robots do not celebrate anything. Celebration is an expression of joy, which cannot be mechanized. — Ravindra Shukla