F M Cornford Quotes

#1. Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.

Francis Cornford

#2. University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.

Francis Cornford

#3. Her first love, her first lover, the only person with whom she had never felt the need to explain herself.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#4. Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

Francis Cornford

#5. To me she looked like a lily, an innocence floating in the pond!

Avijeet Das

#6. I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.

Ansel Adams

#7. I had a little dog and my dog was very small ... Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.

Francis Cornford

#8. My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me strange or older, Nor I, him.

Francis Cornford

#9. Cynicism is the besetting and venial fault of declining youth, and disillusionment its last illusion.

Francis Macdonald Cornford

#10. The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.

Francis Cornford

#11. Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Frances Cornford

#12. The political motive in the academic breast is honest enough. It is fear---genuine, perpetual, heart-felt timorousness. All the Political Arguments are addressed to this passion. Have you ever noticed how people say, 'I'm afraid I don't ...' when they mean, 'I think I don't ...'?

Francis Macdonald Cornford

#13. There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

Thomas Carlyle

#14. It doesn't matter how many people are thinking negatively about someone; if that person is in joy those thoughts can never reach them, because they are on a different frequency. Instead, all the negative thoughts will multiply and return to the people who were thinking them.

Rhonda Byrne

#15. In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.

David Bowie

#16. When people value your leadership practices, they in effect buy your leadership. They're inspired to excel and act with commitment. But when employees don't buy your leadership, they disengage, becoming noncustomers of your leadership.

Anonymous

#17. Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#18. The spirits of children are remote and wise...

Frances Cornford

#19. There is only one argument for doing something; the rest are arguments for doing nothing

Francis Macdonald Cornford

#20. Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Francis Cornford

#21. And for the world's orphans. A portion of this book's proceeds will go to you.

Stacy Wasmuth