Oppie Tong Quotes & Sayings

In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
the people of the world
exactly at the moment when
they first attained the title of
'suffering humanity — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain. — Cornel West

If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they'd love you more. — Darnell Lamont Walker

To love what you do and feel like it matters, how could anything be more fun? — Katherine Graham

Mom called," Gansey said. "Do I want to meet the governor the weekend after next because it would be great if I did and did I want to bring my friends? No, Mother, I would in fact not like that. Helen will be there! Yes, Mother, I assumed so but hardly consider it a plus, as I am worried she will kidnap Adam. Fine, fine, you don't have to, I know you're busy but oh dot dot dot et cetera et cetera. Oh, — Maggie Stiefvater

Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness. — Louis Pasteur

God wants to be known, but not in a way that overwhelms us, that takes away the possibility of love freely chosen. "God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away," said Meister Eckhart. — John Ortberg Jr.

Nobody had ever tried to stop me in June as long as I could remember, and when you are nine years old, what you remember seems forever; for you remember everything and everything is important and stands bigs and full and fills up Time and is so solid that you can walk around and around it like a tree and look at it. You are aware that times passes, that there is a movement in time, but that is not what Time is. Time is not a movement, a flowing, a wind then, but is, rather, a kind of climate in which things are, and when a thing happens it begins to live and keeps on living and stands solid in Time like the tree that you can walk around."
from "Blackberry Winter — Robert Penn Warren

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity — Martin Luther

Travel opens different eyes to different things, shows things we've never seen before, shows the world from entirely different angles. That's the power of drawing and the power of travel. They both make the familiar unfamiliar and vice versa. They show what we all have in common and what we may have missed thanks to preconceptions that may have marred our vision. — Danny Gregory

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England. — Terence Stamp

It was late. Late to start again. Late to realize how many years he'd spent running down the wrong road. — James S.A. Corey

The membership relation for sets can often be replaced by the composition operation for functions. This leads to an alternative foundation for Mathematics upon categories
specifically, on the category of all functions. Now much of Mathematics is dynamic, in that it deals with morphisms of an object into another object of the same kind. Such morphisms (like functions) form categories, and so the approach via categories fits well with the objective of organizing and understanding Mathematics. That, in truth, should be the goal of a proper philosophy of Mathematics. — Saunders Mac Lane