Yavorsky Truck Quotes & Sayings

But to minds strongly marked by the positive and negative qualities that create severity, - strength of will, conscious rectitude of purpose, narrowness of imagination and intellect, great power of self-control, and a disposition to exert control over others, - prejudices come as the natural food of tendencies which can get no sustenance out of that complex, fragmentary, doubt-provoking knowledge which we call truth. — George Eliot

Real randomness requires an infinite amount of information. — Tristan Perich

No, I don't want to commit suicide, but I should like to fade away and die gently. To depart from life as one gets out of a bath. — Pitigrilli

The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa. — James Thurber

From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is all of grace, from first to last. He that perishes chooses to perish; but he that is saved is saved because God has chosen to save him. — Charles Spurgeon

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions ... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous, not to say, idiotic, pleasure. — Lord Chesterfield