Farkas Bolyai Quotes
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.Farkas Bolyai
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Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
Venus Williams -
Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.
Eden Hazard -
I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.
Loretta Lynn -
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
Edgar Allan Poe
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People have to realize that the air we breathe and the water we drink come from the ocean and will go back to the ocean one way or another, no matter how far away we may be from it. It's a perpetual cycle.
Walter Munk -
I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!
Annie Elizabeth Delany -
...like a predator about to devour the target.
Alan Parry -
Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
Barbara Ann Kipfer -
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.
David Bezmozgis -
I wouldn't walk across the street to piss down Don Shula's throat if he was on fire.
Johnny Unitas
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The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over — a century after it is over.
Joyce Kilmer -
As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness.
J. Budziszewski -
Those men established and raised this franchise to new heights.
Bob Harlan -
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.
Farkas Bolyai