“Any change in routine was terrifying, even if it involved less violence rather than more.”
Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 30
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“Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.”
Jesse Aarons
Bridge to Terabithia (1977)
“No fairer law in all the land
Than that death-dealers die by what they've planned.”
Neque enim lex aequior ulla est,
Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.
Ovid
book
Ars amatoria
Book I, lines 655–656 (tr. Len Krisak)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
“Just two from the over, Anderson tighter than Andy Fordham's watch strap.”
Ben Dirs
journalist
England v Sri Lanka, 2007-04-04, BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/6521515.stm,
“All men are mortal, he tells us, but some are more mortal than others.”
Robert Sheckley
book
Mindswap
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 32 (p. 153)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
(1896–1977) Indian guru
Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 1, Chapter 7, verse 42, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/1/7/42
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights
“If you speak English, you speak at least a part of more than a hundred languages.”
Anu Garg
(1967) Indian author
As quoted in * http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/a-23-2005-11-15-voa1-83125067/117153.html
2005-11-15
VOA News
Avi
Arditti
“Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.”
Ben Horowitz
(1966) American businessman
Forbes: "5 Obstacles That Inspired Me To Innovate" https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2018/06/28/5-obstacles-that-inspired-me-to-innovate/#8f06bb42b77f (28 June 2018)
“Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than He went through before.”
Richard Baxter
(1615–1691) English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 11.
“The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.”
Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. XIII
“If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.”
Paul A. Baran
(1909–1964) American Marxist economist
Source: The Political Economy Of Growth (1957), Chapter One, A General View, p. 20
“Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”
"A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181.
“I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.”
Merrick Garland
(1952) American judge
[Merrick Garland, Confirmation hearing on nomination of Merrick Garland to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, United States Senate, December 1, 1995]; quote excerpted in:
[March 18, 2016, http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/03/16/judge-merrick-garland-in-his-own-words/, Judge Merrick Garland, In His Own Words, Joe Palazzolo, March 16, 2016, The Wall Street Journal]
Confirmation hearing on nomination to United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1995)
George Long
(1800–1879) English classical scholar
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
“Biology is usually a lot more fun than physics. It's a lot easier to understand, and there's sex.”
Alexander Rosenberg
(1946) American philosopher
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
“You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.”
Cesare Pavese
(1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.”
Charles Babbage
(1791–1871) mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable c…
Quoted in William Kenneth Richmond (1969), The Education Industry.
May be modern paraphrase of "the errors which arise from the absence of facts" quote above.
Attributed
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
K 72
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)
“On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice.”
Sam Harris
(1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Quoted in Tim Ferris, "Tools of Titans" (2016), p. 454
2010s
“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.”
Lydia Maria Child
(1802–1880) American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist
1840s, Letters from New York (1843)
Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/66/12266.html, vol. 1, letter 37