Nuffield College Quotes & Sayings

People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it. A twelve-year-old boy worships Jack Dempsey. An adolescent in a Glasgow slum worships Al Capone. An aspiring pupil at a business college worships Lord Nuffield. A New Statesman reader worships Stalin. There is a difference in intellectual maturity, but none in moral outlook. — George Orwell

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. — Edith Wharton

Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

I'm slowly learning that my happiest, most special moments happen when the circus is at its peak. — Emily Ley

I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I'd really like Whole Foods to contribute to the healing of America, and the success of that may be measured in decades rather than in months, but I think we're on the way to doing it. — John Mackey

Death is the monster we all fear, yet with each day, we walk toward it, and can't help doing so; we can't help but walk toward the one thing we're most trying to avoid. — Bill Maher

I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge. — Albert Renger-Patzsch

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. — William Shakespeare

He was hot like lava and sexy like cake. Wait, like lava cake. Yum. — Penny Reid

I cannot get rid of the hurt from losing, but after the last out of every loss, I must accept that there will be a tomorrow. In fact, it's more than there'll be a tomorrow, it's that I want there to be a tomorrow. That's the big difference, I want tomorrow to come. — Sparky Anderson

If everybody who had brains and doubts left Orthodoxy, we would be in a great deal of trouble. — Chaim Potok

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos. — Luke Evans

I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was
born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio. — Bob Dylan

Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other ... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone. — Mark Nepo

Hi, I'm not answering my phone right now because I'm building kitchen cabinets at 111 Main Street. I'm putting my heart and soul into these cabinets so I won't be returning calls until I'm finished with the job. Please know I will give the same attention and care to your work, as well. If you need to talk to me feel free to come by 111 Main Street during my lunch break at noon. — Jon Gordon