Giulia Carew @thomas active 9 years, 3 months ago

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met onthe street. (Elbert Hubbard)

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

His ignorance is encyclopedic (Abba Eban)

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. (Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

There’s a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I’m not there yet. (Randy Pausch)

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)