Morisi And Oconnell Quotes & Sayings

The air to a glider pilot is a reality ... He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn its flow, its laws, and to try and use this knowledge to his own ends. — Philip Wills

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. — Thomas Carlyle

We do not become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon. — Yuval Noah Harari

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not. — Ellen Swallow Richards

From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at the time ... Should we not replace these foreshadowings by the study of the influences of Hellenistic thought on modern thought? — Lucio Russo

In this box are all the words I know ... Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is to use them well and in the right places. — Norton Juster

I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski

Was looked at askance, and that in the bearing of each member of the group there was a defiance of the general opinion. Roxholm sat on his horse somewhat apart from this group watching it, his kinsman and — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being. — Paul Scofield

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. — John Kenneth Galbraith

If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left. — Shannon L. Alder

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. — Oliver Goldsmith

Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs. — Matthew Lesko

Sleep then, good and faithful servant of the Nephilim. — Cassandra Clare