John Hancock 1776 Quotes

#1. Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

Henry Petroski

#2. We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.

Barack Obama

#3. Every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on a gust of wind from another world? The guy looks unabashedly jack-o'-lantern happy, which couldn't be more foreign to the sullen demeanor most of us strove to perfect.

Jandy Nelson

#4. There's a reason they call it hopelessly romantic.

And not rationally romantic?

Well-developed-thoughtly romantic.

Chloe Neill

#5. Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

Hugh MacLennan

#6. Date a girl who reads

James Joyce