Unbraced Column Quotes & Sayings

Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species. — Barry Mazur

I shall never relinquish my sword for a ring. The right man wouldn't ask me to. — Seth Grahame-Smith

I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open. — Crescent Dragonwagon

Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated city, and felt cheated by her ability to feel happy by everybody else. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I didn't advocate invasion ... I wasn't asked. — Donald Rumsfeld

Women who have succeeded too well at becoming visible have always been penalized vigilantly and forcefully, and turned into spectacles. — Sady Doyle

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial. — Antonio Munoz Molina

When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal. — Paulo Coelho

Until that wretched yesterday - except the moment of vexation long ago in the very same room and in the very same presence - all their vision, all their thought of each other, had been as in a world apart, where the sunshine fell on tall white lilies, where no evil lurked, and no other soul entered. But now - would Dorothea meet him in that world again? — George Eliot

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling. — Damon Albarn

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. — Jorge Luis Borges

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. — Winston Churchill

The human heart, you see, Mma Ramotswe, is pretty much the same wherever one goes. — Alexander McCall Smith

I don't have a strategy. I am my own person. So if people disagree with the opinion of my father and want to dislike me because I'm his daughter, then I'm probably not going to be able to discourage them from that. — Ivanka Trump

The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error. — Sathya Sai Baba