Opactwo Westminsterskie Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art. — Gunther Schuller

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. — Euripides

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble. — Mark Twain

We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so. — Mark Knopfler

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Go in quickly - Punch Hard - Get out! — Adolph Malan

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice. — Chen Guangcheng

Culture is coded wisdom — Wangari Maathai

It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and causes of bygone generations he can lift up the fallen and beat down the proud, and by his exposures and his verdicts, his satire and his moral indignation, can punish unrighteousness, avenge the injured or reward the innocent. — Herbert Butterfield

Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I had to do was find it. — Jean M. Twenge

Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree. — Van Jones

History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps by only the most vocal men; it does not teach us whether the change was sound or whether the rejected view deserved to be rejected. Only an impartial analysis of the view in question, an analysis that is not dazzled by the victory or stunned by the defeat of the adherents of the view concerned could teach us anything regarding the worth of the view and hence regarding the meaning of the historical change. — Leo Strauss

Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name. — Neil Diamond