Imon Cable Quotes

#1. Why didn't they warn us at school? I'm sure if some teacher had said, "Oh and by the way, it feels like someone sandpapering your cervix," they needn't have bothered with all the AIDS warnings and morality stuff.

Kate Long

#2. I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

Ruth Ann Minner

#3. One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.

Josephine Tey

#4. To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.

Amartya Sen

#5. The constant happiness is curiosity.

Alice Munro

#6. Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.

Lucretius

#7. I don't know what scares me more,' she declared, 'the madness that smashes people down, or their ability to endure it.

Gregory David Roberts

#8. I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.

Thomas Lennon

#9. People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.

Bennett Miller

#10. We'd grown up as godless, savage creatures, believing in nothing so much as each other, and somehow it had always been enough.

R.K. Lilley

#11. Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

John C. Maxwell

#12. We do not imagine that the "masses" may consist of automatons obeying external stimuli and may move, not under the influence of the will, consciousness, or inclination of individuals, but under the influence of external stimuli coming possibly from very far away.

P.D. Ouspensky

#13. In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

Erwin Schrodinger

#14. There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.

Robert Robinson