Laurentians Quotes & Sayings

So let me get this straight," he said. "After everything that's happened on this campus-the murder, the stalking, the kidnapping-you want to go up into the woods-by yourself, in the middle of the night, based on something a ghost in a dream told you-and dig a hole?"
Well when he put it that way ... — Kate Brian

Life has no value without love. — Debasish Mridha

Poverty is a scourge and must be dealt with surge. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

A penalty is a cowardly way to score. — Pele

Your greatest chance of happiness lies in creating for yourself a library as soon as is possible - Mr Bennet — Emma Campbell Webster

Suddenly, [Cecilia Washburn] was getting a lot of attention from her friends," Pabst explained to the jury. "Attention from the dean of the pharmacy school ... .Attention by Dean Charles Couture, the then dean of students; by the Crime Victim Advocate office; by the nurse, [Claire] Francoeur ... .Miss Washburn got attention by the investigator and by the prosecutor. Her regret was replaced by sympathy, attention, and support, and a little bit of drama, and a little bit of celebrity ... .Her regret, fueled by drama, became purpose. She received a new public - and important - identity: victim. — Jon Krakauer

Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family. — Brigham Young

Value' has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human - 'market value' is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average personal values, all of which must be quantitively different or trade would be impossible. — Robert A. Heinlein

The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting
because we don't know. Science is all about things we don't understand. The public, of course, imagines science is just a set of facts. But it's not. Science is a process of exploring, which is always partial. We explore, and we find out things that we understand. We find out things we thought we understood were wrong. That's how it makes progress. — Freeman Dyson

Too many cooks spoil the broth — Jane Austen

Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong. — Brian Greene

His mother had survived decades of marriage to his angry, disappointed, alcoholic father by developing what she called a "forgettery" instead of a memory. She woke up every day and forgot the day before. — Salman Rushdie

If you aren't getting flak, you aren't over the target. — Gifford Pinchot

The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the few. But a new element of unrest has been added: a growing awareness that mass poverty is caused by defective institutions that prevent our harnessing the physical capabilities of science, engineering, management and labor to create general affluence; in other words, a growing awareness that poverty in any country that is or can be industrialized, is man's not nature's fault. — Louis O. Kelso

The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball. — Bob Weiss