Teangalach Quotes & Sayings

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make — Antony Beevor

Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents. — Andy Rooney

Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women
forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking. — Karl Lagerfeld

If you don't tell your stories, who will? — Angie Pedersen

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop. — Michael Oxley

Deep caring about each other's fate does seem to be on the decline, but I do not believe that New Age narcissism is much to blame. The external causes of our moral indifference are a fragmented mass society that leaves us isolated and afraid, an economic system that puts the rights of capital before the rights of people, and a political process that makes citizens into ciphers.

These are the forces that allow, even encourage, unbridled competition, social irresponsibility, and the survival of the financially fittest. The executives who brought down the major corporations by taking indecent sums off the top while wage earners of modest means lost their retirement accounts were clearly more influenced by capitalist amorality than by some New Age guru. — Parker J. Palmer

It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work. — Israel Horovitz

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one. — Cormac McCarthy

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken. — William Shakespeare

Nature is unfathomable because we seek after causes and consequences in a realm where this form is not to be found. We try to reach the inner being of nature, which looks out at us from every phenomenon, under the guidance of the principle of sufficient reason - whereas this is merely the form under which our intellect comprehends appearance, i.e. the surface of things, while we want to employ it beyond the bounds of appearance; for within these bounds it is serviceable and sufficient. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play! — Constance Reid