Simeon Strunsky Quotes

Statistics are the heart of democracy.

Simeon Strunsky

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• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Wave

• I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • People
  • Life
  • Blessed

• The fact is that Superman isn't around because he is the oldest superhero. He's still around because he is a great superhero. He's the guy that spawned the entire genre, and that didn't happen because it was a mediocre idea.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Superhero

• First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Laughed
  • Comedies
  • Our

• Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Great
  • Career
  • Best

• It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Women
  • Learn
  • Honor

• I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Night
  • Quiet
  • Busy

• One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Nature
  • Language
  • Same

• Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Fool

• Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Community
  • State
  • Civilisation

• The centre of gravity of any cone is the point which divides its axis so that the portion adjacent to the vertex is triple of the portion adjacent to the base.

  

  Archimedes

• And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death

• Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Cuando todo está hecho, las mañanas son tristes.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Son

• There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

  

  Maurice Baring
  • Fun
  • Serious

• Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Time

• Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Art

• If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

  

  Washington Allston
  • Truth
  • Speech
  • Spiders

• Our assumption is that God has not revealed all there is to know in the spiritual area any more than he has in these other areas. We, therefore, need to experiment in this area and, like scientists who work in other areas, develop and test theories in order to gain greater understanding

  

  Charles H. Kraft
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
  • Develop

• "Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Tamper

• Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

  

  Robert Frost
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Things

• Statistics are the heart of democracy.

  

  Simeon Strunsky
  • Heart
  • Democracy
  • Statistics