Saint Roland Quotes & Sayings

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean. — G.H. Hardy

I mean who the hell do you think you are, exactly? Saint Roland of the Perpetual Martyrdom? — Catherine Jinks

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses. — Richard Levin

Now I say that a heart that has no grace, and is not instructed in this mystery of contentment, knows of no way to get contentment, but to have his possessions raised up to his desires; but the Christian has another way to contentment, that is, he can bring his desires down to his possessions, and so he attains his contentment ... The world is infinitely deceived in thinking that contentment lies in having more than we already have. Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances. That is why many godly men who are in low position live more sweet and comfortable lives than those who are richer. — Jeremiah Burroughs

The time to start worrying about the consequences of our editorial decisions was before we raised a generation of people who get all of their information from television, and who believe that the solution to every problem is simple enough that you can find it before the 21 minutes of the sitcom are over. Or — Matt Taibbi

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel. — Steve Wozniak

Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all. — Steve Erickson

London is a very energising place to be. — Kevin Spacey

No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger. — Natalie Wright

We are all masters of our own destinies. — Paulo Coelho

Those that care for their career, more than their relationship, can find themselves alone. — Anthony Liccione

What scares me? I kind of believe in ghosts. I believe they can wander around, so that scares me. But the stuff that really scares me are the catastrophic events like my husband or children or my family being harmed, or something like that. — Annabeth Gish

I think that collectivization was an erroneous and unsuccessful measure and it was impossible to admit the error. To conceal the failure people had to be cured, by every means of terrorism, of the habit of thinking and judging for themselves, and forced to see what didn't exist, to assert the very opposite of what their eyes told them. — Boris Pasternak

The lines and verses are only the outward garments of the poem and are no more really it than your ruffles and flounces are YOU, — L.M. Montgomery