Arithmetick Quotes

#1. Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick ... Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history ... should be rendered ... worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

Hermann Hesse

#3. All of my insecurities
shine in the dark.

Lori Jenessa Nelson

#4. Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

Romesh Gunesekera

#5. You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.

Billie Jean King

#6. Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.

Tom Butler-Bowdon

#7. Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.

Judith Butler

#8. Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

Carl Jung

#9. There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are! - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

#10. Other people don't know what you've gone through. And everybody has a story that you probably don't know.

Travis Pastrana

#11. In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.

Jose Bergamin

#12. And I feel that love is dead, I'm loving angels instead

Robbie Williams

#13. Carry your most important goal in your wallet.

Jack Canfield

#14. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie