Austere Academy Quotes

#1. In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

Jacky Ickx

#2. Fear of failure impedes adequate self-identification

Sunday Adelaja

#3. I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

Aziz Ansari

#4. For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.

Bernhard Von Bulow

#5. Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)

Eknath Easwaran

#6. Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.

Will Rogers

#7. A man can die but once.

William Shakespeare

#8. Be awesome! Be a book nut!

Dr. Seuss

#9. If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts;
Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void

Deanne Williams

#10. Ten times did God test our forefathers, and they were not so much as once found to be perfect. Avoth d'Rab. Nathan, chap. 34.

Maurice H. Harris

#11. A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

Dave Morris

#12. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Lemony Snicket

#13. As beautiful as this world is, it's just as dangerous. People who are not useful, people who make mistakes, they can be removed. You can be removed.

Victoria Aveyard

#14. ...bravery often demands a price.

Lemony Snicket