Mrs. Beauregarde Quotes & Sayings

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. — Todd Gitlin

In 1957, which is now 57 years ago, my grandfather and then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi welcomed Prime Minister Menzies as the first Australian Prime Minister to visit Japan after World War II and drove the conclusion of the Japan-Australia Agreement on Commerce. — Shinzo Abe

To feel anything strongly was to create an abyss between oneself and others who feel strongly perhaps but differently. — Virginia Woolf

We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health — Colin Blakemore

Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion? — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars. — Andrea Camilleri

The delight of the spirit leads to life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism's life to be continued; another organism's life has to be discontinued. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car. — Mike O'Malley

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Use it or lose it. — Jimmy Connors

Discomfort is the sign, you are on right track. — Jeff Goins

America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts. — Edmund White

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy. — Fred Brooks

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever. — Tibor Kalman