Skilbeck Curriculum Quotes & Sayings

- I mean, said Stephen, that I was not myself as I am now, as I had to become. — James Joyce

It is critically important that Iran should not develop nuclear weapons. And that the necessary interventions need to be made by the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure that, indeed, that does not happen, in the context of any nuclear generation of power or research or whatever, in Iran. — Thabo Mbeki

If you see people of a particular race or culture as objects, your view of them is racist, whatever your color or lack of color or you power or lack of power. — The Arbinger Institute

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them. — Jason Statham

There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things. — Erich Fromm

I've always had that chip on my shoulder. I've just always been super hard on myself. — Mindy Kaling

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. — Golda Meir

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. — James Henry Breasted

A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat. — James Pinckney Miller

Once, it was possible to learn things, and to be shaped by your learning, he says. Once, to be a student meant to be formed by what you learned. To let it enter your soul. But today? We're drowning in openness, he says. In our sense of the possible. We're ready to take anything in - to learn about anything, and therefore about nothing. — Lars Iyer

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. — George Eliot

It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones. — Franz Kafka