Isambard Brunel Quotes

#1. I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.

Fergus Henderson

#2. I am going to design ... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Isambard K. Brunel

#3. What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't be worrying anyway), whereas if you are a worrier by nature there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, so you may as well stop worrying, except of course you can't.

Bill Bryson

#4. If a girl wasn't loved a little bit, without the depth of affection that might at least be mistaken for love, she was being used, and no one was the better for being used

Dean Koontz

#5. If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

#6. The reality is you do not know exactly what is likely to occur tomorrow. Lifetime can be a ridiculous trip, and practically nothing is confirmed.

Eminem

#7. He's practicing his Constitutional right to be a jackass.

Julie Miller

#8. I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

Isambard K. Brunel

#9. I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot yoga.

Patricia Velasquez

#10. We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

Ronald Reagan

#11. Any time you can squeeze out the opportunity to get better, you should.

Troy Polamalu

#12. Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.

Jim Butcher

#13. This network of artificial instincts is called culture'.

Yuval Noah Harari

#14. No matter what, you can only live this moment.

Krishna Sagar

#15. The idea that it was the state's business to know what was good for people - while we accept it uncomplainingly in school curriculums and hospital practices - smacked of eugenics and perhaps euthanasia.

Tony Judt

#16. Her life was no more than a ghostly pageant of exhausted endurance, no more real than a television drama. Death, who now stood by her side, was as familiar to her as a family member, missing for a long time but now returned.

Han Kang