Ford Maddox Quotes

#1. Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language.

Ruth Rendell

#2. As the whole conquest never put the crown to any expense.

Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

#3. I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing

Groucho Marx

#4. Maximize the potential of everyone close to you

Sunday Adelaja

#5. I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Alan Kay

#6. The best of healers is good cheer.

Pindar

#7. What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

Christopher Marlowe

#8. Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature ... Without causation, nothing happens and without organization by an intelligent being, systems tend to lower and lower levels of complexity.

Hugh Ross

#9. As secretary of state it's been an enormous honor to represent this great country that I love so much - I have really seen that our great strengths are in the ability of people to reach their potential here.

Condoleezza Rice

#10. Even in fine-dining restaurants, you have people that say 'I want to be out in half hour', 'I want to be out in 45 minutes.' It happens.

Michael Mina

#11. You keep a secret inside of you and it feels like a wall that separates you from others.

Frank Warren

#12. [P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne its fruit, it has another, more meaningful and weightier name. We call it hatred.

Georges Bernanos

#13. My mind is in the gutter so often, I have an assigned parking spot.

Duncan Spencer

#14. Maybe not," mused Maggie. "If we eat pies, then we should never, not for one moment, look down on the making of them." "I don't," said William.

Alexander McCall Smith