Tinseled Cloth Quotes & Sayings

The truly correct proof is one that strikes a harmonious balance between strength and flexibility. There are plenty of proofs that are technically correct but are messy and inelegant or counterintuitive. But it's not something you can put into words - explaining why a formula is beautiful is like trying to explain why the stars are beautiful. — Yoko Ogawa

I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles. — Dan Jenkins

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars. — Mikhail Gorbachev

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. "No man can come to me," said our Lord, "except the Father which hath sent me draw him," and it is by this very prevenient drawing that God takes from us every vestige of credit for the act of coming. — A.W. Tozer

As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal". — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life. — Jim Rohn

The idea that you're supposed to do everything on your own is absurd. You can't. — Natasha Leggero

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person. — Stephenie Meyer

Ill ware is never cheape.
[Ill ware is never cheap.] — George Herbert

I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape. — Nathan Filer

So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow, while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary of our actions. In order to seek values, we must consider ourselves worthy of enjoying them. In order to fight for our happiness, we must consider ourselves worthy of happiness. — Nathaniel Branden

Let youth pass, and no matter what opportunities presented themselves, the capacity to build the broad base required to support the structure of learning was gone. — Catherine Cookson

He looks funny in a suit jacket, like a bear dressed up in costume for the circus. I would never tell him that, though. — Lauren Oliver

If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States. — Noam Chomsky