William Stanley Jevons Quotes
I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and I wished or thought of nothing better. More lately I thought I should be a minister, it seemed so serious and useful a profession, and I entered but little into the merits of religion and the duties of a minister. Every one dissuaded me from the notion, and before I arrived at any age to require a real decision, science had claimed me.
William Stanley Jevons
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Jack Kemp
The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
Iggy Pop
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
Dale T. Mortensen
Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
Gail Porter
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
Lady Gregory
I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
Edgar Wright
Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
Katee Sackhoff
A woman's health is her capital.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.
Fat Joe
The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing.
Tavi Gevinson
I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
Laura Linney
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
Kate Millett
If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains.
Mahatma Gandhi
There are some athletes who I feel like are just looking for likes, and then there are people who are just real.
John Gourley
Portugal. The Man
Some people--and I pray I will be one of them--never forget what it was like, which enables them to mentor people of any age.
Brian D. McLaren
During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.
Richard Feynman
I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and I wished or thought of nothing better. More lately I thought I should be a minister, it seemed so serious and useful a profession, and I entered but little into the merits of religion and the duties of a minister. Every one dissuaded me from the notion, and before I arrived at any age to require a real decision, science had claimed me.
William Stanley Jevons
