Thomas Elyot Quotes & Sayings

Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme. — Evan Davis

When most boys dreamed of being a superhero, I dreamed of you. — Marilyn Grey

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books. — Frederick Lenz

The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men. — Matthew Henry

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist. — Friedrich Schiller

I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and I feel the energy from the universe. I have a 1/1,000th of a fragment of stone-age tools and pottery and debris. I can learn many things from my collection. Actually, the 1,000 Buddha, I wanted to buy it, but it's a National Treasure, so I couldn't. If you cannot buy it, just photograph it! — Hiroshi Sugimoto

One can indeed try to obtain a particular result either by the use of violence or by speech aimed at securing the adherence of minds. It is in terms of this alternative that the opposition between spiritual freedom and constraint is most clearly seen. The use of argumentation implies that one has renounced resorting to force alone, that value is attached to gaining the adherence of one's interlocutor by means of reasoned persuasion, and that one is not regarding him as an object, but appealing to his free judgment. Recourse to argumentation assumes the establishment of a community of minds, which, while it lasts, excludes the use of violence. — Chaim Perelman

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens. — Leslie Stephen

Your attitude toward life is more important than environment, upbringing, and even your education. So always have a happy positive attitude. — Debasish Mridha

Yet he knew things he would have preferred not to know. Things about men and the evil they do. Things so terrible as to make anyone's confidence waver, and contaminate anyone's heart forever. He looked at the people around him, people who lived without that burden of knowledge, and envied them. — Donato Carrisi