Top 24 Grattan Quotes
#1. Eliminate the impossible, and what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" - Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
#2. Time is one of those tricky things. It's fast to slip through our fingers and we regret each lost moment the instant it's gone. If we constantly turn around to examine our footprints, we'll miss the road ahead.
Matthew C. Plourde
#3. I had of course met with incredulity..., but seldom with a will to incredulity.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#4. From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
#5. When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name.
Elvis Presley
#6. And I can't help thinking, I knew. I always knew there was something off
about that woman. At first I just thought she was a bit immature, but it was more than that, she was sort
of absent. Self-involved. I'm not going to lie - I'm glad she's gone. Good riddance.
Paula Hawkins
#8. You are remarkably modern, Mabel. A little too modern, perhaps. Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
Oscar Wilde
#9. The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.
Aristotle.
#10. Colter was so particular about the colors she used in decorating that she sometimes mixed her own. For the interior of Bright Angel Lodge she made a special shade of blue, and she was so insistent that the painters mix the shade exactly as she wanted it that they dubbed it "Mary Jane Blue.
Virginia L. Grattan
#11. A world of random soul mates would be a lonely one. Let's hope that's not what we live in.
Randall Munroe
#12. The most fulfilling romance is an heroic relationship with yourself. You live and die by your own imagination.
Dean Cavanagh
#13. Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?
Groucho Marx
#14. Non-Newtonian calculi ... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems.
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
#15. I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.
Bobby Scott
#16. Mathematics is one of the most basic
and most ancient
types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
#18. San Francisco was her favorite. It was the kind of city where being independent was valued, not pitied or regarded as a problem to be rectified by well-meaning friends.
Susan Wiggs
#19. It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
#20. The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.
Theodore Zeldin
#21. In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
#22. I don't think so," the Mayor buzzes -
And my feet stop running -
But then I pick up one -
And then the other -
And I'm running for it again -
I hear the Mayor laugh behind me. "Well done," he says.
Patrick Ness
#23. Eaders should be looked upon as being 'in front', 'sharing' rather than 'showing' the way ... it is the followers who save leaders and therefore make them.
Michelle Grattan
#24. I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.
Henry Grattan Guinness
