Nicole Oresme Quotes
The heavenly bodies move with such regularity, orderliness, and symmetry that it is truly a marvel; and they continue always to act in this manner ceaselessly, following the established system, without increasing or reducing speed and continuing without respite, as the Scripture says: Summer and winter, night and day they never rest.
Nicole Oresme
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
Zhang Zhidong
I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
Kacey Musgraves
My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
Olga Kurylenko
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
Joanne Rowling
I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.
Manuel Moroun
I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.
Aaron Brown
Most Americans cannot save more than $6,000 a year from depreciating real estate. That's all they can write off against their salary or business profits.
Hillary Clinton
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.
Elizabeth Bear
We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.
J. I. Packer
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
Socrates
Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!
Bertrand Meyer
The heavenly bodies move with such regularity, orderliness, and symmetry that it is truly a marvel; and they continue always to act in this manner ceaselessly, following the established system, without increasing or reducing speed and continuing without respite, as the Scripture says: Summer and winter, night and day they never rest.
Nicole Oresme