Eugina Lau Quotes

#1. The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.

J.M. Coetzee

#2. The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.

Boris Johnson

#3. Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

Wilhelm Wundt

#4. No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.

Charles Albert Gobat

#5. What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Denis Johnson

#6. I am astounded
at how long it takes
to discover ...
for the first time,
the things I have learned ...
over and over again
all my life.

Portia Nelson

#7. The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

Guy Finley

#8. And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.

Anonymous

#9. What is destiny - a mechanical fact, a theoretical possibility, a concept, a superstition, a mere word? Ian McCullough was inclined to think one or another of these depending upon his mood. Destiny, the seemingly benign verso of fate.

Joyce Carol Oates

#10. Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still.

Kevin Focke

#11. At the end of the day, taking 50% off a $250 dress still means walking out of the store $125 poorer.

Ian Lamont

#12. And there we were, in the background of it all, holding on to one another. The Perfectionist, the Sweetheart, the Diva ... and me.

Kiera Cass

#13. A bottle of wine was good company.

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, "Put a jumper on

Amanda Craig