George Peabody Quotes

#1. On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.

Carroll Quigley

#2. We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.

Sam Kean

#3. Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.

Al Gore

#4. And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Aidan Chambers

#5. Life is going to happen to you. Your destiny will be found in how you respond to life. Most let fate find them; the few find their destiny.

Shay Dawkins

#6. There is his religion of art, my young successor: rejecting life! Not living is what he makes his beautiful fiction out of! And you will now be the person he is not living with!

Philip Roth

#7. Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby.

Jan Hunt

#8. Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.

Thomas Young

#9. one affirmative from God's mouth for thy pardoned state, carries more weight, though of old date, than a thousand negatives from Satan's. David's

William Gurnall

#10. Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.

George Peabody

#11. Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?"

Alexander MacLaren

#12. To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".

Roland Barthes

#13. Remind thyself that he whom thou lovest is mortal - that what
thou lovest is not thine own; it is given thee for the present, not
irrevocably nor for ever, but even as a fig or a bunch of grapes at
the appointed season of the year

Epictetus

#14. I wish so much to go that I almost wish I had never been there.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#15. Education : a debt due from present to future generations.

George Peabody

#16. If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.

Paul Johnson

#17. The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

John Maynard Keynes

#18. In innocence there is no strength against evil [ ... ] but there is strength in it for good.

Ursula K. Le Guin