Poetrywithpassion Com Quotes & Sayings

I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses. — Jordan Ellenberg

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. — Samuel Johnson

What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven. — Thomas Goodwin

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical. — Emmylou Harris

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief ... I don't need on-the-job training. — John McCain

The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith

It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts. — Gabrielle Zevin

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball. — Kurt Russell

Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers — Confucius

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying. — Albert Camus

When people have supernatural beliefs I think they should be respected but there is no reason why they need to impose them on others. — Ian McEwan

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women. — Sophocles

A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it. — Mark Twain

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is. — Tina Brown

We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology. — Sam Kean

When you can love yourself, then your heart is open to give and receive love. — Daveda Gruber