Trevelyan Irish Famine Quotes & Sayings

If you're not a target, you're a failure. — G. Gordon Liddy

When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing. — Gaspard Ulliel

The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art. — Harold Rosenberg

Olga noticed Mirium looking at her blankly. 'Don't you pray?' she asked.
'Pray?' Mirium shook her head. 'I don't understand - '
'Prayers! Oh, yes, I forgot. Didn't dear Roland say that on the other side everybody is pagan? You all worship some dead god on a stick, impaled or something disgusting, and pray in English,' she said with relish. — Charles Stross

When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany. — Donald Rumsfeld

Who says you'll get hurt again?"
I pouted. "Have you met you?"
"Right. — Kate Evangelista

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation — Jeremy Bentham

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself? — James Vila Blake

We not only learn, but we also learn to gradually change our conceptual framework and to adapt it to what we learn. — Carlo Rovelli

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home. — Sun Tzu

Whenever we are not occupied in one of these ways, but cast upon existence itself, its vain and worthless nature is brought home to us; and this is what we mean by boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I've found peace here at the co-op. You could stay with us, if you want. Become a ROFLcopter. — Rick Riordan

Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them. — Henry David Thoreau