Isambard Kingdom 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. Who doesn't want to rise above the obstacles in his pathway? Who wouldn't want to go down in flames?

John Darnielle

#3. Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.

Paul Gibbons

#4. What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

Ben Carson

#5. Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.

Zig Ziglar

#6. Timshel - thou mayest

John Steinbeck

#7. Much of our life is guided by the beliefs we develop over the course of time; the story we create about what life's about, how we're supposed to be, what we're supposed to do or give.

Anthony Robbins

#8. 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

#9. In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but in this world I had a brother who was dying of cancer and a long dark patch of life like a mile of black ice waiting for me up ahead.

Junot Diaz

#10. Only then did he understand that he really wanted to know nothing about El Ga'a beyond the fact that it was isolated and unfrequented, that it was precisely those things he had been trying to ascertain about it.

Paul Bowles

#11. Life isn't sugarcoated. Why should coffee be?

Tommy Wallach

#12. You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.

Miranda Lambert

#13. Power changes its appearance but not its reality.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#14. A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.

Kyle Barger

#15. But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.

Marvin Minsky