Barenberg David Quotes

#1. Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

Malcolm Lowry

#2. Got it," I say as he hands me a pencil skirt, a crisp long-sleeved white shirt, and some low black heels. "This is what I'm wearing?" I'm a librarian. "Can I safely assume the accessories will include glasses on a chain and my hair in a bun? Should I shush people tonight?

J.A. Huss

#3. The Procrustean bed in life consists precisely in simplifying the non-linear and making it linear - the simplification that distorts.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#5. I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

ASAP Rocky

#6. I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.

Henry Petroski

#7. The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

Martin Gardner

#8. Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#9. It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

Randy Alcorn

#10. That in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.

Margaret Cavendish

#11. The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Adam Smith

#12. I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928 ... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.

Max Schmeling

#13. (On disco) I don't consider that a genre as much as a level of hell.

J.M. Hushour