Magnus Macfarlane-barrow Quotes & Sayings

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences. — Albert Einstein

No, I mean have dinner. With me. At a restaurant."

Her breath caught at the intensity in his gaze. "Jackson - "

"Don't say no."

She blinked in surprise at his cocky command. "Why shouldn't I?"

His grin was slow and sexy as he braced both hands on the door jamb and leaned in slightly. "Because I really like you in that red dress, Molls." He backed up before she could respond and gave her a little wink. — Lauren Layne

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. — Luke The Evangelist

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print. — Jonah Hill

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing. — Virginia Woolf

The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied. — Alice Bag

The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself. — Roland Barthes

American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism. — Henry A. Kissinger

Make your love to change everyone you meet but don't let anyone change your love for a bit. — Debasish Mridha

Serving people is the best way to earn influence. — Jeff Goins

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again. — Mitch McConnell

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system. — William Glasser