Perzanowski V Quotes & Sayings

We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

She fizzed when she smiled. — Dorothy Koomson

Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them. — Jenny Lewis

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. — Henry Kissinger

The computer scientist Christopher Langton observed several decades ago that innovative systems have a tendency to gravitate toward the "edge of chaos": — Steven Johnson

Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance. — Lewis Thomas

There are so many works of the mind, so much humanity, that to disburden ourselves of ourselves is an understandable temptation. Open a book and a voice speaks. A world, more or less alien or welcoming, emerges to enrich a reader's store of hypotheses about how life is to be understood. As with scientific hypotheses, even failure is meaningful, a test of the boundaries of credibility. So many voices, so many worlds, we can weary of them. If there were only one human query to be heard in the universe, and it was only the sort of thing we were always inclined to wonder about
Where did all this come from? or, Why could we never refrain from war?
we would hear in it a beauty that would overwhelm us. So frail a sound, so brave, so deeply inflected by the burden of thought, that we would ask, Whose voice is this? We would feel a barely tolerable loneliness, hers and ours. And if there were another hearer, not one of us, how starkly that hearer would apprehend what we are and were. — Marilynne Robinson

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable. — Dick Morris

The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. — John Milton

I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you're always an outsider... — Natasha Trethewey

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time. — Andy Rooney

I can walk into a room with all my contemporaries and I will be very comfortable. — Deepika Padukone

the wise man never assumes anything, never regrets anything, is never wrong, never changes his mind. — Robert Harris

We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this country-who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong. — John Lindsay