Spies Michael Frayn Whose Reality Quotes & Sayings

I feel like everything does happen for a reason, and I can totally look back on my career and the decisions I've made and how it sort of worked itself out. — Judy Greer

Tibetans are not famed for their perseverance. Full of enthusiasm at the start, and ready for anything new, their interest flags before long. For this reason I kept losing pupils and replacing them, which was not very satisfactory for me. The children of good families whom I taught were without exception intelligent and wide awake, and were not inferior to our children in comprehension. In the Indian schools the Tibetan pupils are ranked for intelligence with Europeans. One must remember that they have to learn the language of their teachers. In spite of that handicap, they are often at the head of the class. There was a boy from Lhasa at St. Joseph's College, at Darjeeling, who was not only the best scholar in the school, but also champion in all the games and sports. — Heinrich Harrer

The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking. — John Von Neumann

Cheerful holiness is the most forcible of sermons, but the Lord must give it you. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control. — Kit Williams

to think something is good, to do something is God. — Mike Myers

You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys. — James Carl Nelson

The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it! — Sinclair Lewis

There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives? — George Eliot

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment. — Pope Francis

She closed her eyes and tried desperately to swim through the mist that enveloped her memories. She was near here and then she wasn't. She was whole and then she was wounded. Forever scarred. And in between? Unknowable, it seemed. Absolutely unknowable. — Chris Bohjalian

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people. — Andy Goldsworthy