Oars And Alps Quotes & Sayings

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G.H. Hardy

You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love ... -p. 131 — Irving Stone

I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero. — Joel McCrea

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish. — Emile M. Cioran

Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth To-day encircle all the earth, And bind the nations with the love That Jesus brought from heaven above. — Maud Lindsay

Economics is important because it's possible to buy the places that are necessary to live in relative inaccessibility and seclusion, or to move with a bit of style and chicness into the middle of civilization. — Frederick Lenz

How you are in this place that has been sealed since the time of Caesar Augustus?" one of the archaeologists demanded in amazement.
"I was looking for my sister," Dan quipped.
"Your sister?"
"Oh - here she is." Dan reached through the opening and hauled out an equally grubby Amy. — Gordon Korman

When I was a young hippy, I thought marching naked would be a strong protest, but I don't think it would be as effective now. — Germaine Greer

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total. — Alistair Begg

Something had gone horribly wrong at my birth, so my father would never have his little soldier, Mom would never have her home filled with tiny scampering joy, and we each clutched our guilt very privately. — Edward Fahey