Fowell Quotes

#1. The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks.

Neal Stephenson

#2. The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

#3. better next time. That's what life is." Logen

Joe Abercrombie

#4. Now was the time for now. Now was one of those rare and precious moments with which one was gifted from time to time. That was all it was. A moment. But it was one to be enjoyed to the full while it lasted and treasured for a lifetime after it was over.

Mary Balogh

#5. Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

#6. The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

Francoise Bertaut De Motteville

#7. Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.

Darrell Royal

#8. Few men can afford to be angry.

Augustine Birrell

#9. With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable

Thomas Fowell Buxton

#10. A guy that's undersized has to prove himself right away.

Doug Flutie

#11. I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.

Julian Grenfell

#12. It turns out that the governor of California has more authority to name appointees than any elected official in America except the president of the United States and the mayor of Chicago. The

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#13. Needed are ... [souls] filled with compassion, that we might communicate not only eye to eye, or voice to ear, but in the majestic style of the Savior, even heart to heart.

Thomas S. Monson

#14. Lyme disease, psittacosis, Q fever: These three differ wildly in their particulars but share two traits in common. They are all zoonotic and they are all bacterial. They stand as reminders that not every bad, stubborn, new bug is a virus.

David Quammen

#15. One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.

Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

#16. Likewise, democracy in Saudi Arabia is potentially our enemy.

Robert D. Kaplan

#17. Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

Aristotle.