Needham Quotes

#1. Penelope!" Lady Needham stood just inside the door to the dining room, stick straight, her hands clenched in little fists, confusing the footmen, frozen in uncertainty, wondering if dinner should be served or not. "Thomas proposed!" "Yes. I was present for that bit," Penelope said.

Sarah MacLean

#2. I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

Simon Winchester

#3. Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.

Joseph Needham

#4. Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

Richard J. Needham

#5. The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

Joseph Needham

#6. God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Richard J. Needham

#7. If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.

Richard J. Needham

#8. The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

Richard J. Needham

#9. Screw the dialogue, let's wreck some cars.

Hal Needham

#10. To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population
ah, that's proof of pure political genius.

Richard J. Needham

#11. The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Richard J. Needham

#12. People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

Richard J. Needham

#13. Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Richard J. Needham

#14. The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on

Joseph Needham

#15. You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being.

Richard J. Needham

#16. Oh for God's sake, Jack, lighten up. You know the old saying. Every man loves the smell of his own farts." In

Jake Needham

#17. Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

Richard J. Needham

#18. A heart beats seventy-two times a minute. The blood that flows within the essence of life also becomes a compass that navigates through the uncharted waters of romance and eventually arrives at the port called LOVE..

Gene Needham

#19. I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.

Hal Needham

#20. Big data is the most disruptive force this industry has seen since the introduction of the relational database.

Jeffrey Needham

#21. The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

Richard J. Needham

#22. I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Richard J. Needham

#23. But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure ... the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the Fundator et Primus Abbas of biochemistry in England.

Joseph Needham

#24. When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

Richard J. Needham

#25. When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

Richard J. Needham

#26. When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department, I'll tell him, 'Count your blessings; you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!

Richard J. Needham

#27. But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.

Joseph Needham

#28. For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

Richard J. Needham

#29. Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

Richard J. Needham

#30. Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

Joseph Needham

#31. People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Richard J. Needham