Kossoff V Quotes & Sayings

I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can. — Fanny Howe

I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages. — Quincy Jones

It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so. — Suzanne Collins

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict. — E.F. Schumacher

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies. — Steven Pinker

Your reality being true doesn't mean my reality isn't It's — Sam Killermann

Psychologist Arthur S. Reber offers the following summary of the psychological research on decision making: "During the 1970s . . . it became increasingly apparent that people do not typically solve problems, make decisions, or reach conclusions using the kinds of standard, conscious, and rational processes that they were more-or-less assumed to be using." To the contrary, people could best be described, in much of their decision making, as being "arational": "When people were observed making choices and solving problems of interesting complexity, the rational and logical elements were often missing. — William B. Irvine

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another ... — Thomas A. Edison

Freedom can be more expensive than the lack of it, and to prove it we have the prisons of Sweden, which offer better conditions than any slum house of Brazil. — Daniel Marques

That's what all painting is about, its space and light occupied by human presences. — Leon Kossoff

Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen. — Sam Childers

I think it's maybe because Sergeant Pepper's came out when I was about 13 or 14 and that was a pretty impressionable age, and it was such a kind of radical period. But that period of the Beatles really had a big influence on me and I think are directly related to hyperinstruments. — Tod Machover

I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let's put it to the test. — Anna Gavalda

This morning could have been perfect. The cruel truth is they have never been. Give us loneliness or give us death. — Sean Gabler

His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too. — Suzanne Collins