Pokorea Quotes & Sayings

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation ... — Henri J.M. Nouwen

If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister. — Rachel Sklar

All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, to postpone action that it appears to demand at a given time. Who knows, asks Robert Browning, but the world may end tonight? True, but on available evidence most of us make ready to commute on the 8:30 next day. — Austin Bradford Hill

Love is the strongest bond. Nothing can break it, not even death. — Debasish Mridha

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades. — David Nicholls

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. — Seneca The Younger

We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality. — Frederick Lenz

In the 'Life' of George Eliot, John Walter Cross gave an intriguing account of Eliot's creative method. "She told me that, in all her best writing, there was a 'not herself' which took possession of her, and that she felt her own personality to be merely the instrument through which this spirit, as it were, was acting," Cross wrote. — Rebecca Mead

I see the last two millennia as laid out in columns, like a reverse ledger sheet. It's as if I'm standing at the top of the twenty-first century looking downwards to 2000. Future centuries float as a gauzy sheet stretching over to the left. I also see people, architecture and events laid out chronologically in the columns. When I think of the year 1805, I see Trafalgar, women in the clothes of that era, famous people who lived then, the building, etc. The sixth to tenth centuries are very green, the Middle Ages are dark with vibrant splashes of red and blue and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are brown with rich, lush colours in the furniture and clothing. — Claudia Hammond

Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another. — Boris Johnson