Janos Bolyai Quotes

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

Janos Bolyai

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• The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Action
  • Lost
  • President

• Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Remember
  • You
  • Famous

• Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Family
  • Father
  • Year

• Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Lie

• I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Mom
  • Feel
  • Meant To Be

• I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I'm constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don't work too hard and get exhausted.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • High
  • Song

• Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Identity

• Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • God
  • Country
  • Goal

• I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Face

• Indian-ness, love for your country, is complicated. For every person, there is a different way that you show respect for your country... my mother-in-law will say karmayogi is the way to go - do your work.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Work
  • Country
  • Way

• It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Nice

• Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Up
  • Family
  • Dream

• Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • God
  • Women

• Science, in the broadest sense, is simply that which may be verified; but how much of that which theology accepts and goes upon is verifiable by human reason or experience?

  

  John Burroughs
  • May
  • Experience
  • Science

• You laughed for the marrow in their bones that was not yet ready for laughter; And you wept for their eyes that yet were dry. Your voice fathered their thoughts and their understanding. Your voice mothered their words and their breath.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Words
  • Eyes
  • Understanding

• While thus he threw his Elbow round, Depopulating all the Ground, And, with his whistling Sythe, does cut Each stroke between the Earth and Root, The edged Stele by careless chance Did into his own Ankle glance; And there among the Grass fell down, by his own Sythe, the Mower mown.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Earth

• If we believe that the task of physics is the discovery of a timeless mathematical equation that captures every aspect of the universe, then we believe that the truth about the universe lies outside the universe.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Universe

• Ch. 2 Relativity

  

  Arthur Eddington

• I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.

  

  Denise Mina

• It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Easy
  • Silly
  • Harder

• No one is going to tell me how I need to think. No one is going to tell me who I can, and cannot, talk to.

  

  Leah Remini

• We get paid in flesh. Our audiences are sluts and whores, each and every one.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Paid
  • Flesh
  • Audiences

• I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Home
  • Night
  • Man

• Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

  

  Janos Bolyai