“Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.”
Abby Sunderland (1993) Camera Assistant, Inspirational Speaker and Sailor
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 14
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel book Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832), Volume 1
“At 100, I have a mind that is superior — thanks to experience — than when I was 20.”
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012) Italian neurologist
Source: Quoted in Associated Press obituary http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50324234/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UO09q6w1fTp
“We are more than our base desires, and our lives are not sustained by gratifying them.”
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
“It is always wise to look ahead – but difficult to look further than you can see.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Appears in Churchill By Himself, ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs , p. 576 (“Appendix I : Red Herrings”) : ISBN 1586489577 , with the following explanatory note ; "Reported by the usually reliable Graham Cawthorne, but not in Hansard; possibly an aside to a colleague, however"
Disputed
“It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.”
Nigel Slater (1958) English food writer, journalist and broadcaster
The Guardian, London, Not roquette science, 2005-10-29, 2010-05-20 http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/houseandgarden/0,,1602953,00.html,
“It needs more skill than I can tell
To play the second fiddle well.”
Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist
The Salt-Cellars http://books.google.com/books?id=CmAUAAAAYAAJ&q=%22It+needs+more+skill+than+I+can+tell+To+play+the+second+fiddle+well%22&pg=PA284#v=onepage (1885)
“Frankly, I could carve a better opposition party out of a banana than the Tories.”
Peter Hitchens (1951) author, journalist
2009-05-14
Question Time
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/may/14/peter-hitchens-interview
“In our proposed budget, we spend more money on education than ever before.”
Larry Hogan (1956) American politician
" State of the State Address: A New Direction for Maryland http://governor.maryland.gov/2015/02/04/state-of-the-state-address/" (4 February 2015)
“I see an entrepreneur as the chief designer of a business that works better than any other.”
Michael E. Gerber (1936) American business writer
‘A Conversation with Michael Gerber’, from an interview posted on Businessweek.com website, 24 March 2008
“We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.”
Abraham Isaac Kook book Orot
Orot Hatchiah 33.
Orot
Henri Bergson book Creative Evolution
Creative Evolution (1907), Chapter I, as translated by Arthur Mitchell (1911), p. 14.; italicized in the original.
“No human is more intelligent than the other…just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.”
Siddharth Katragadda (1972) Indian writer
page 7
Dark Rooms (2002)
“Southwestern Hispanos… have long said that the only thing smarter than a coyote is God.”
Dan Flores (1948) American historian
p, 125
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (2016)
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American writer
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 124.
David Hume book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
§ 4.8
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
“Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book II, Ch. 12
Attributed
“To be unknown but loved by just one is better than being known by many but loved by none.”
Lupe Fiasco (1982) rapper
Rules 2 Rule
“I also believe there is nothing more surreal and nothing more abstract than reality.”
Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) Italian painter
from an interview, 1955; as quoted in Morandi 1894 – 1964, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2008; p. 38
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