Horrea Galbana Quotes & Sayings

There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look the easiest will soon discover. In some the interest lies very deep, in others comparatively near the surface; but there is not one which is not curious and entertaining. — G.H. Hardy

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. — Mahatma Gandhi

One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect. — Giovanni Falcone

Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you. — Mahatma Gandhi

If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him. — R.A. Torrey

People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school. — Campbell McGrath

Number 402, your name is Will Barrent. Age 27, blood type O-L3, Index JX-221-R. Guilty of murder. — Robert Sheckley

The last word of the Northmen before their entry in the larger world of Southern culture, their last independent guess at the secret of the Universe, is given in the Twilight of the Gods. As far as it goes, and as a working theory, it is absolutely impregnable. It is the assertion of the individual freedom against all the terrors and temptations of the world. It is absolute resistance, perfect because without hope. — W. P. Ker

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home. — Pat Conroy

Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana — Gautama Buddha

I'd clawed my way back to the land of the living. Because of Vero. She needed me. — Lisa Gardner