Captain Spaulding Devils Rejects Quotes

#1. The source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of seemingly generality is, in essence, the same as a small and concrete special case.

Paul Halmos

#2. Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

Henri Nouwen

#3. A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. Don't complain because life has problems, but get excited because life gives opportunities.

Debasish Mridha

#5. The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.

Xi Jinping

#6. What do you think of all
this, darlin'? Will you be my soul mate?

Ann Macela

#7. The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.

Philip Glass

#8. Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

Jack Bowman

#9. I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to become an Ambassador. It's a new and different venture for me and one that I know will widen my wider perspective on life. I'm in a position to use the recognition from my work to do something really positive for children

Ewan McGregor

#10. If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.

Jo Brand

#11. Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#12. He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

William Blake

#13. I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me the most horrible thing of all is knowing that he will forget me."
I lacked the presence of mind to tell her that it was impossible; she was simply unforgettable.

Ingrid Betancourt

#14. Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there.

Shannon Lucid

#15. A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.

Bob Dylan