Sherington Ch Quotes & Sayings

Every man is himself a class; every hour carries its new challenge. — W.B.Yeats

People should be changed by world wars," I said, "else what are world wars for? — Kurt Vonnegut

One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the same thing as the current of conduction, but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must [also] be taken into account ... — James Clerk Maxwell

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried' — Mario Cuomo

I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night,
blown and flared by passion's storm,
and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains. — Robert G. Ingersoll

No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity. — Leon Botstein

The United States of America is logically the least magical place in the world. Planned by committee, not even a country, just a legal umbrella for fifty associated provinces, an elaborate polling system for creating other larger and more permanent committees. No mysteries; no demons; one God at the most. Sure, it had its own folklore and tall tales, but it wasn't the same. Its rulers weren't descended from men and women who spoke with birds and rode dragons. Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan were hayseeds, folksy also-rans compared to the madness in the ancient royal blood going back to the Druids, to Byzantium, to Mithraic cults. — Austin Grossman

Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's. — David Baldacci

Michelangelo continually had trouble with his assistants and had to sack several for poor workmanship, laziness, or even - in one particular case - because the lad in question was 'a stuck-up little turd'. — Alexander Lee

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent. — Krista Tippett

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. — Gore Vidal

You are mad, Malloreigh!" It is an odd thing to have madness call you mad. Makes you think for a moment that you are sane, but also makes you think that it is truly sane. My mind hurts. I stopped thinking. I painted. — D.J. LeMarr

In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern. — Douglas A. Lawson