Pirogovi Quotes & Sayings

Each man judges correctly those matters with which he is acquainted; it is of these that he is a competent critic. — Aristotle.

Decades go faster toward the end of a century. — Hortense Calisher

Breathing is ... difficult at the moment.
Breathing is a necessity for you humans, and if kissing you causes you to have difficulties, I might have to refrain from doing it again. — S.L. Naeole

It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny. — Jeff W. Horton

I may not have the stereotypical head for business, but I have feet that were made for heels. — Tamara Mellon

Because the Second Amendment is an incomprehensible mess, because too many lobbyists have argued that it is an absolute protection of actions and items never considered at the time of our nation's founding, and because there is a clear state interest in protecting the lives of its citizens, the words must be removed from the Constitution. — Kurt Eichenwald

Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. — Wallace B. Smith

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page - rather he picks about five words at random out of twenty and "guesses" at the meaning that probably belongs to these five words - just as little do we see a tree exactly and completely with reference to leaves, twigs, color, and form; it is so very much easier for us to simply improvise some approximation of a tree. Even in the midst of the strangest experiences we will still do the same: we make up the major part of the experience and can scarcely be forced not to contemplate some event as its "inventors." All this means: basically and from time immemorial we are - accustomed to lying. Or to put it more virtuously and hypocritically, in short, more pleasantly: one is much more of an artist than one knows. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's not love. It's an obsession. And it's not art. It's a way of seeing things. A way to see the things that aren't there. — Kirsty Eagar

For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and the craft becomes very evident, but a lot of times those aren't my favorite songs. The favorite songs are the ones that I can't even hear my own voice in. — Jon Foreman

All the knowledge is in the connections — David Rumelhart

All learning is derived from things previously known. — Aristotle.

For animals, life is all there is; for man, life is a question mark. An irreversible question mark, for man has never found, nor will ever find, any answers. Life not only has no meaning; it can never have one. — Emil Cioran

Doesn't matter who it is
I'll friggin break 'em
-Grimmjow jaggerjaques — Tite Kubo

All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don't challenge ourselves to actually practice. — Bell Hooks