Klanec Quotes & Sayings

Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession. — Mary Everest Boole

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying. — Samuel Johnson

I have a lot of sympathy for Gollum.
By Claire Davis, author — Claire Davis

Churchill had arrived in Persia secure in his nineteenth-century belief in England's imperial destiny; he left having learned a cold lesson. He now had no choice but to regard the status of his small island nation from a mid-twentieth-century vantage point, and it was one of declining geopolitical might. — William Manchester

If dissociation, then, has been understood by psychopathologists to imply among other things 'loss of consciousness,' the question that immediately presents itself, or so one might think, is: what exactly is being lost--in other words, what is meant by consciousness? It turns out that it is exceedingly difficult to find an answer to this question in the psychiatric literature despite the seeming centrality of the issue. — Morton Klass

The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs. — Jennifer Granholm

I only wanted to help my people. — Belle Boyd

Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores. — Martin Amis

Sometimes idiots can accomplish wonderful things. — Scott Adams

Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you
thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children. — Lyman Abbott

Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny. — Gregory Maguire

She seemed to him both powerful and delicate, like a wild thing that thrives in its place but withers when stolen away. — Eowyn Ivey