Rene Descartes Quotes
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.
Quotes to Explore
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
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Lying is the rule, not the exception.
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For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.
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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.
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The encouragement of industry and frugality among the poor, by visits at their own inhabitations; the relief of real distress, whether arising from sickness or other causes; and the prevention.
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A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
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When water power then steam power were harnessed to spin and weave cloth, a cottage craft turned into an industry overnight.
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Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.
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Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.
