Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) Quotes

The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious.

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• I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Age
  • Like
  • Feel

• We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Voice
  • Africa

• We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Funny
  • Page

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

  

  Edie Falco
  • Children
  • Why
  • Kids

• In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Poetry
  • English

• Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Great
  • Wisdom

• I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Yoga

• I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Love
  • Abundance

• If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Today
  • Alive
  • Spinning

• A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Life
  • May
  • Faith

• The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women

• Unilateralism, as we have painfully seen in Iraq, is its own reward. Going it alone may satisfy a political instinct but it is dangerous to our military, even without their Commander in Chief taunting terrorists to 'bring it on.'

  

  Al Gore
  • May
  • Political
  • Alone

• Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.

  

  Benjamin Graham

• Character is more important than talent.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Important
  • Character

• My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • World
  • Great
  • Important

• So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Job

• Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.

  

  John McAfee
  • Unique
  • Competition
  • Fierce

• But however mysterious is nature, however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science, the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Success

• Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity. … There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Music
  • Book
  • Nature

• Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Success
  • Way
  • Looks

• My body may have been abused, but it certainly hasn't been neglected.

  

  Paul Lynde
  • May
  • Body
  • Neglected

• The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious.

  

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