Withey English Clan Quotes & Sayings

Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis. — Jonathan L. Howard

I sound like a monster, like somebody who doesn't care about anyone but myself. Maybe I am. — Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Note: There is a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Your goal is not to live long ... it's to live! — Milan Jed

It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most important - a sense of humour, but Johnson himself will provide many other attributes. He is effective precisely because he is so determined, industrious, personal and even humourless, particularly in dealing with Congress. ( ... ) Kennedy had a detached and even donnish willingness to grant a merit in the other fellow's argument. Johnson is not so inclined to retreat and grants nothing in an argument, not even equal time. Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately. This may not be the most attractive quality of the new administration but it works. The lovers of style are not too happy with the new administration, but the lovers of substance are not complaining. — Robert A. Caro

I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers. — Daniel Woodrell

When you need someone To talk to Or just to be with you Remember there is someone close by That someone is me — Margaret Jones

Live with kindness, integrity and spirituality. Comport yourself with grace under pressure. — Bryant McGill

Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more. — Jacqueline Novogratz

The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man. — Louis Agassiz

You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them. — Nancy Johnson

I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most. — Ellen Hopkins

On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week and then on Sunday get down on his knees and pray to God. Frankly I've never been able to understand it because you would need two totally different compartments in your brain, one that deals with religion and the other with everything else. — Ernst Mayr

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. — Ray Bradbury

What is a bookshelf other than a treasure chest for a curious mind... — Unknown