Oxford Cleric Quotes & Sayings

In today's time, no other 'charity' is acceptable or practical than the 'wisdom' that can transform the human life... Meaning the knowledge which can teach a man to climb the ladder of success. — Deep Trivedi

When God gave men tongues, he never dreamed that they would want to talk about the Himalayas; there are consequently no words in the world to do it with. — Sara Jeannette Duncan

Ichirou: And I went through all the trouble preparing to explode with laughter...That wasn't funny at all! — Kou Matsuzuki

It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits. — Jennifer Tour Chayes

Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour). — Vladimir Nabokov

Adding social structural analysis to medical and public health education would move toward a more realistic and balanced version of the biopsychosocial model already explicitly claimed in contemporary health-professional training. More important, this would provide future physicians and public health professionals with the lenses to recognize the societal critiques available in sicknesses and their distributions. With such an awareness of the structurally violent social context of disease, health professionals could move effectively toward acknowledging, treating, and preventing suffering. — Seth Holmes

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft. — Publilius Syrus

What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection. — H.G.Wells

I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well. — Angela Merkel

Thank you, I said. I have lived in my own book. One I never planned to write, recording time backwards and forwards. — Patti Smith

You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb