Thevenon 1908 Quotes & Sayings

Theory without practice is pointless, practice without theory is mindless. Lenin — Andrew MacLennan

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person. — Nicole Polizzi

I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure 'Antonioni' to 'Terminator Salvation.' — Michael Weatherly

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust. — Ivan Krastev

Merrill Lynch is this hugely prestigious brand. — Charles Duhigg

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views. — Nadine Gordimer

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her. — A.A. Milne

The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all. — William J. Brennan

History is a construct ... Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments ... We can look at these events and say that after them things were never the same again. — Margaret Atwood

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be. — Richard Mitchell

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end. — George Armstrong Custer

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it. — David Byrne

When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't. — Danica Patrick

God promises no easy life or days without troubles, trials, difficulties, and temptations. He never promises that life will be perfect. He does not call His children to a playground, but to a battleground. — Billy Graham