Stephen Littlewood Quotes & Sayings

But Marcus Aurelius knows that what the heart is full of, the man will do. 'Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are,' he says, 'such will thy mind be in time.' And every page of the book shows us that he knew thought was sure to issue in act. He drills his soul, as it were, in right principles, that when the time comes, it may be guided by them. To wait until the emergency is to be too late. — Marcus Aurelius

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society. — Paul Krugman

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city. — Clive Anderson

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you. — Robert Osborne

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking. — Charles Caleb Colton

Not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe. — John Calvin

Logan's overall score was a six-point-seven. Jimmy only has a score of six-point-four. Even with today's new math, six-point-seven is greater than six-point-four. I can show you with a graph if that would help. — Harlan Coben

What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee — William Shakespeare

I was overcome by a wave of wonder at how much good was going on, and how you heard about the bad things that happened so much that you overlooked the immensely disproportionate majority of other acts done to the real benefit of self and others without which none of this would be here at all. — Ken MacLeod