Matloff Robyn Quotes & Sayings

essential differences between generative grammar and structural linguistics. — Noam Chomsky

We twist our souls around each other's miseries. — Anthony Marra

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks. — Jessie Matthews

I have lived my life, Derfel,' he said at last, 'according to oaths. I know no other way. I resent oaths, and so should all men, for oaths bind us, they hobble our freedom, and who among us doesn't want to be free? But if we abandon oaths then we abandon guidance. We fall into chaos. We just fall. We become no better than beasts. — Bernard Cornwell

Institutional structures are legitimate insofar as they enhance the opportunity to freely inquire and create, out of inner need; otherwise, they are not. — Noam Chomsky

Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

If you mean by "military victory" an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible. — Henry A. Kissinger

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious. — Yann Martel

Adventures are funny things. They always begin with the unexpected, but they always end wit the promise of adventures yet to comestoriai — Wayne Thomas Batson

I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important. — Rand Paul

We do not try to forcefully detach ourselves from the feelings, thoughts and expectations that arise in our mind. We don't try to force anything into or out of the mind. Rather, we let things rise and fall, come and go, and simply be ... there will be times in meditation when we're relaxed, and times when our minds are agitated. — Oliver Burkeman

Whatever you're doing, you must have patience. — John Wooden