George Washington Goethals Quotes

#1. As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

Abraham Robinson

#2. Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

John Burnside

#3. 'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!

Alison Weir

#4. It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.

Bart Starr

#5. Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united
with faith in his justice

George Washington Goethals

#6. Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

George Washington Goethals

#7. Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance.

George Washington Goethals

#8. When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read.

Nicholas G. Carr

#9. With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Eldridge Cleaver