Furnivall Theory Quotes

#1. By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.

Laozi

#2. We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. conversing, in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna

Sylvia Plath

#4. I imagine that she's looking at the stars and thinking about how small and insignificant we are down here. We're little ants on a pebble, hurtling through space.

Albert Borris

#5. And I am a weapon of massive consumption
And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.

Lily Allen

#6. The experience of the Mayas is one more reminder that any interpretation of human evolution based on the idea of unilineal progress forwards (or upwards) is an illusion. Peoples decline as well as rise.

Hugh Thomas

#7. When I left Bradford and got a phone call from Dave Parnaby asking 'did I want to come back in?', I was delighted to accept. The whole buzz at the club at the moment is great for someone like me who is still learning and wanting to hopefully go into management in my own right at some point.

Colin Cooper

#8. We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.

Kevin Bales

#9. The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn't just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down Egyptian society: between religions, classes, sexes, and generations.

Shereen El Feki

#10. I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

James Dashner

#11. There's tremendous pressure, if you're in that [goverment] system, to be involved and be interested and to care about it. There's no room to say, "This is stupid."

Dave Barry