Farkas Bolyai Quotes

#1. When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.

Farkas Bolyai

#2. The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...

Farkas Bolyai

#3. Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

Charles Colson

#4. Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.

J.D. Jordan

#5. Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

Farkas Bolyai

#6. The exposition of Atrocious Torture Instruments could not fail to appeal to a connoisseur of the worst in mankind. But the essence of the worst, the true asafoetida of the human spirit, is not found in the Iron Maiden or the whetted edge; Elemental Ugliness is found in the faces of the crowd.

Thomas Harris

#7. They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.

Tom Gjelten

#8. But sometimes it's the things that require a leap of faith that we need to believe in most of all.

Lisa Wingate

#9. One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.

Robin McKinley

#10. Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.

Farkas Bolyai

#11. I got a lot of body paint on me in a short period of time. I would definitely do it again because Joann [Gair] is so brilliant, but I would definitely need, like, a good long break for it.

Ronda Rousey

#12. Life is a quest for love and a quest for god, and there is no car or plane for this trip. it is an old-fashioned quest made on our own two feet.

Peter Kreeft

#13. The applause and the favour of our fellow-men
Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

Ovid

#14. My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.

Ibrahim Rugova

#15. You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy.

M.F. Moonzajer

#16. My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.

Steve Kluger

#17. The purpose of art is the fight for freedom,

Ai Weiwei