Laundries Claremont Quotes & Sayings

I always try to push through fear. I won't be crippled by it. People say, "Oh you take such risks", or "You're brave." And I'm like, 'Well, if you knew - inside I'm really frightened!' But the way people navigate fear and pain is fascinating ... The more you feel, the stronger the pain. And the more you engage in life, the more you have to lose. — Nicole Kidman

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. [Fermat's] Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this. — Andrew John Wiles

He has the merit - if it is one - of saying exactly what he means. — E. M. Forster

A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations. — Emile Durkheim

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it. — Marcus Aurelius

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment. — Anthony Romero

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more. — Linus Torvalds

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat. — Eugene Ionesco

Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'. — Chris Brown

Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt. — Steven J. Lawson