Mathe Quotes & Sayings

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body. — Edgar Degas

Philosophize: you are a mistress, part of a great hysterical you mean historical tradition. — Lorrie Moore

So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many of the ancients the consummation of mathematics-would be by far the most outstanding. This art which is as it were the head of all the liberal arts and the one most worthy of a free man leans upon nearly all the other branches of mathe matics. Arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service. — Nicolaus Copernicus

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong. — Mahatma Gandhi

What is evil neither can nor should be loved; for it is not one's duty to be a lover of evil or to become like what is bad; and we have said that like is dear to like. Must the friendship, then, be forthwith broken off? Or is this not so in all cases, but only when one's friends are incurable in their wickedness? If they are capable of being reformed one should rather come to the assistance of their character or their property, inasmuch as this is better and more characteristic of friendship. But a man who breaks off such a friendship would seem to be doing nothing strange; for it was not to a man of this sort that he was a friend; when his friend changed, therefore, and he is unable to save him, he gives him up. — Aristotle.

Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or a quarreller? — Kurt Hahn

I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them. — David Morse

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening ... — Matthew Arnold

I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest. — Taylor Swift

Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white. — Jacob Zuma

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics. — Kenneth R. Miller

It's a mother's greatest privilege to give birth, to raise a child. But a woman's greatest honor is to look at her son with pride and know that she's helped him become a man. — Susan May Warren

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans! — Mark Russell

The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy of European democracies - not just directly by threatening the livelihoods of so many people and pushing the economy into a downward spiral, but also indirectly by undermining the legitimacy of the political system through this backdoor rewriting of the social contract. — Ha-Joon Chang