Sir Charles Lyell Quotes & Sayings

I want to be that Tantalus, unfed / forever, that my want's agony declare / that such as we want has nothing to say to the world; / if the world wants, it nothing wants for us. / Let me be unsatisfied. — William Bronk

Teach earnestly.
Teach enthusiastically.
Teach efficiently.
Teach excellently. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits. — George Poulett Scrope

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other. — Gary Shteyngart

Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade between individuals or nations, you must realize that your standard of living is being lowered as a result. — John Pugsley

Let it go. That's my philosophy: learn to not give a fuck, at least about petty shit. Life will be much simpler. — Cherrie Lynn

I buried a nickel under the porch when I was 8, she said, but one day my grandma died & they sold the house & I never got to go back for it.
A nickel used to mean something, I said.
She nodded. It still does, she said & then she started to cry. — Brian Andreas

We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence - crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withheld for a moment. When Mr. Lyell finds, as a witty friend lately reported that there had been found, a silver-spoon in grauwacke, or a locomotive engine in mica-schist, then, but not sooner, shall we enrol ourselves disciples of the Cyclical Theory of Geological formations. — George Poulett Scrope

Regardless of the amount of kashays [anger, pride, deceit, greed] the other person creates, if you win over the kashays with the Gnan [real knowledge] abundance from within, when the kashays have no effect on you from within, then it is considered as winning the world. — Dada Bhagwan

It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to. — Grant Achatz

Wow, someone woke up on the wrong side of the Midol. — Denise Jaden

Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else. — Henry Allingham

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day. — Kelley Armstrong

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake. — Aaron Hill