Yagyū Munenori (1571–1646) samurai and daimyo of the early Edo period
A Hereditary Book on the Art of War (1632)
Yagyū Munenori (1571–1646) samurai and daimyo of the early Edo period
A Hereditary Book on the Art of War (1632)
“Ask yourself over and over again, has the Chibok affair become too late to think about?”
Grace Alele-Williams (1932–2022) mathematician
Source: https://www.youtube.com/mRi3f0V_kM4 Prof Grace Alele seeking for the return of Chibok girls in 2017.
“Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?”
Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor
Oscar Levant, as recounted by Levant in A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); quoted in "Books and Things" by Lewis Gannett, in The New York Herald Tribune (January 13, 1940), p. 11
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Context: Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words. We shall, however, when occasion demands, enter into discourse sparingly, avoiding such common topics as gladiators, horse-races, athletes; and the perpetual talk about food and drink. Above all avoid speaking of persons, either in the way of praise or blame, or comparison. If you can, win over the conversation of your company to what it should be by your own. But if you should find yourself cut off without escape among strangers and aliens, be silent. (164).
“Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
" The Wreck of the Deutschland http://www.bartleby.com/122/4.html", lines 1-8 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918) <br class="br">Context: Thou mastering me<br>God! giver of breath and bread;<br>World’s strand, sway of the sea;<br>Lord of living and dead;<br>Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh,<br>And after it almost unmade, what with dread,<br>Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh?<br>Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.
Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher
The Sacred and the Profane : The Nature of Religion: The Significance of Religious Myth, Symbolism, and Ritual within Life and Culture (1961), translated from the French by William R. Trask, [first published in German as Das Heilige und das Profane (1957)].
Marilyn French (1929–2009) Novelist, critic
Source: Her Mother's Daughter
Pam Ferris (1948) British actress
This much I know: Pam Ferris https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/22/this-much-i-know-pam-ferris (21 January 2012)