Retro Illumination Quotes & Sayings

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish. — Thomas Starr King

How can I fail when I have no purpose? — Ashleigh Brilliant

People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult. — Alexei Mordashov

I've even purposely looked for stories full of exactly this kind of angst, because I love the emotion behind it so much. — Rachel Hollis

Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort. — Sabine Baring-Gould

I'm so not perfect. — Sienna Miller

In Lock splitting we use different locks for different parts of the application. In Lock striping we use multiple locks to protect different parts of the same data structure. ConcurrentHashMap — Knowledge Powerhouse

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man. — Pete Townshend

What a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system! — Robert Purvis

Unlike, say, witch-burning, slavery, and apartheid, which were once taken for granted and are now officially outlawed, war is still with us. — Adam Hochschild

Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience. — Ralph Ellison

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion. — John Adams

Death is but an instant, life a long torment. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin