Accidence Quotes

#1. It is high time we turned to Grammar now," said Doctor Cornelius, in a loud voice. "Will your Royal Highness be pleased to open Pulverulentus Siccus at the fourth page of his 'Grammatical Garden or the Arbour of Accidence pleasantlie open'd to Tender Wits?

C.S. Lewis

#2. You needed a vision of the future in order to get anywhere; you couldn't live life thinking you were always about to fall off a cliff.

Alexandra Kleeman

#3. Well-being is not the goal; it is the starting point. this is yet another realization that could change everything dramatically. it might be a concept you'd like to remind yourself of every now and then.

Frederick Dodson

#4. It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

Rudy Rucker

#5. Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#6. What matters is the effect, not the process.

Erich Fromm

#7. Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.

Eddie Vedder

#8. I feel capitol punishment is dooming U.S.A.

Gregory Corso

#9. Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is a matter of self-responsibility, based on the right to the fruits of one's own labor and freedom to trade.

Leonard Read

#10. Books ... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#11. When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.

Sheryl Sandberg

#12. For Benny and The Beauty, the sun was always shining whatever the weather, and if they hadn't been on the run from the law, they would probably have gotten married right away. Once you've reached a certain age, it is easier to sense when everything feels exactly right.

Jonas Jonasson

#13. The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#14. I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

Hal Holbrook

#15. What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

Clayton Christensen