Johann Dobereiner Quotes & Sayings

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war. — Timothy West

Mikey's father, champion of all pint drinkers, is like my uncle Pa Keating, he doesn't give a fiddler's fart what the world says and that's the way I'd like to be myself. — Frank McCourt

I dedicate this lecture to showing what ridiculous conclusions and rare statements such a man as myself can make. I wish, therefore, to destroy any image of authority that has previously been generated. — Richard Feynman

The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked - really, forced - difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one's own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution. — Glenn Greenwald

The will of the people shall be the law of the land — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

They do not know that by thinking in new directions (which has been called the definition of genius) they can bring new directions into their lives. Most of them are marking time, as if they have a non-cancelable contract with life. How can we rise above our more egregious mistakes if we just mark time! Let's do it better than it's been done before. Let's find our partner in the freest, richest land on earth and do something wonderful with this holiday we've been mysteriously granted. — Earl Nightingale

Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal. — Charles Darwin

The relationship between an inch & a mile is the same as an astronomical unit & a light year — Dan Winter

It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. — Yann Martel

As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things — Kazuo Ishiguro