Top 100 Quotes About Barrow
#1. Tycoons and barrow boys will rob you
And throw you on the side
All because they love themselves sincerely
Richard John Thompson
#2. To paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow ... we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.
Robert Krulwich
#3. Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that.
Larry Coker
#4. Barrow, who evidently had never seen an atlas, felt superior to Descartes, Rembrandt, and Beethoven.
Ken Follett
#7. Belize is still a pirate haven and is run more or less along the lines established centuries ago by the likes of Captain Morgan, Blackbeard, and Captain Barrow.
John McAfee
#8. Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.
Winston Churchill
#9. My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
Victoria Aveyard
#10. I'm a Silver, sir."
"No you are not, Mare Barrow, and you must never forget it.
Victoria Aveyard
#11. Even one small thing can go right in a world so wrong ~ Mare Barrow
Victoria Aveyard
#12. Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it
-Barrow's Uncertainty Principle
John D. Barrow
#13. Hand-barrow - a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#14. Quarrelling with the Prince of Barrow was like fighting a curtain. Robin Stewart gave up.
Dorothy Dunnett
#16. Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. Leonie Barrow knew enough about real criminal investigations to know full well that cases rarely if ever hinged on an encyclopedic knowledge of tobacco ash or the curious incident of the butler's allergy to spinach.
Jonathan L. Howard
#19. I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
Lane Garrison
#20. The way I saw it, that was the real mistake the Barrow gang had made.
It seemed to me that they'd have been a lot less likely to get gunned down if Bonnie had just had the sense to be Clyde.
Saundra Mitchell
#21. And if joy were not on the earth,
There were an end of change and birth,
And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die,
And in some gloomy barrow lie
Folded like a frozen fly ...
William Butler Yeats
#22. Oh, for shame! Nancy, have you never seen Florrie's face in a chrysanthemum, or a rose?'
'Never.' I said. 'Though there was a flounder for sale on a fishmonger's barrow, in Whitechapel yesterday, and the likeness was quite uncanny. I very nearly brought it home ...
Sarah Waters
#23. Horst was suddenly filled with great admiration for Miss Barrow, and a desire for popcorn.
Jonathan L. Howard
#24. The climate of Barrow is Arctic. Temperatures range from cold as shit to fucking freezing.
Steve Niles
#25. Thank you," I whisper. Words I never thought I would say to her. They unsettle us both."
"You want to thank me, Barrow?" she mutters, kicking away the last of my bindings. "Then keep your word. And let this fucking place burn." (300)
Victoria Aveyard
#26. 'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
Bryan Burrough
#27. I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.
Bob Dylan
#28. And so a barrow to this hero was raised in that land, and there stands a token for men of later days to see, the trunk of a wild olive tree, such as ships are built of; and it flourishes with its green leaves a little below the Acherusian headland. And
Apollonius Of Rhodes
#29. Just because there is one bad apple in the barrow, does not mean all the apples are bad. If you dig into the barrow, it is guaranteed to have a few apples that are not spoiled.
Angela Brown
#30. I'm Barrow. Shade Barrow. And you better not get me killed.
Victoria Aveyard
#31. In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
Joe DiMaggio
#32. Nothing is higher than heaven; nothing is beyond the walls of the world; nothing is lower than hell, or more glorious than virtue.48
John D. Barrow
#33. Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
Isaac Barrow
#34. What I would do, to myself or anyone else, for the chance to go back home? But no one is there. No one I care about. They're gone, protected, far away. Home is no longer the place we're from. Home is safe with them. I hope.
Victoria Aveyard
#35. History is full of people who thought they were right
absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.
John D. Barrow
#36. The sciences paint an impersonal and objective account of the world, deliberately devoid of "meaning", telling us about origins and mechanics of life, by revealing nothing of the joys and sorrows of living.
John Barrow
#37. We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.
John D. Barrow
#38. Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.
Isaac Barrow
#39. When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.
John D. Barrow
#40. Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
Isaac Barrow
#41. Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes
Isaac Barrow
#42. Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.
Isaac Barrow
#43. No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
Isaac Barrow
#44. There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.
Isaac Barrow
#45. Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?
Isaac Barrow
#46. If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.
John Barrow
#47. Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
Isaac Barrow
#48. We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.
John D. Barrow
#49. It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
Isaac Barrow
#50. We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.
John D. Barrow
#51. Yesterday he was a prince; today he is king. I thought he was my friend, my bethrothed, but now I know better.
Victoria Aveyard
#53. The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.
Isaac Barrow
#54. Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.
Robert H. Barrow
#55. People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.
John Barrow
#56. I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
Isaac Barrow
#57. There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.
John D. Barrow
#58. They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them.
Grant Allen
#59. None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.
Isaac Barrow
#60. His expression is unreadable, but his meaning is clear. With one hand, he points at his feet. His fingers are whiter than I remember.
I do as he says.
I kneel.
Victoria Aveyard
#61. Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow
#62. I would prefer death to this cage, to the twisted obsession of a mad boy king.
Victoria Aveyard
#63. Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.
John Barrow
#64. Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
Isaac Barrow
#65. From the pilot's seat, Cal glowers. "He's done enough." He watches me take the chair next to him, seething all the while. "You really want to storm a secret prison built for people like us?"
"Would you rather let Julian die?" No answer but for a low hiss. "That's what I thought.
Victoria Aveyard
#66. Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.
Isaac Barrow
#67. It's to bad we didn't stay longer", I murmur, looking out at the river. "I would have liked to die close to home.
Victoria Aveyard
#69. Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.
Isaac Barrow
#71. Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.
Isaac Barrow
#72. The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.
Isaac Barrow
#73. Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.
Isaac Barrow
#74. Why give him a choice at all? You said yourself, we need everyone we can get. If this Nix guy is half of what you are, we can't afford to let him go."
The answer is so simple, and it cuts me to bone.
"Because no one ever gave me a choice.
Victoria Aveyard
#75. If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
Isaac Barrow
#76. Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.
Isaac Barrow
#77. The road ahead is unknown to all. I cannot offer you wisdom or guidance. Only the promise that I will never leave you.
Andrea Cremer
#78. He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend,
a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently
divert and pleasantly entertain himself,
as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.
Isaac Barrow
#79. Another round," she goads, and holds out a hand for the cards. "I bet a week of laundry."
Across from us, Cal stops his preparatory stretching to snort. "You think Mare does laundry?"
"Do you, Your Highness?" I snap back, grinning. He just pretends not to hear me.
Victoria Aveyard
#80. It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.
John Barrow
#81. One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.
John Barrow
#82. The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
Isaac Barrow
#83. Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.
John D. Barrow
#84. You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.
John Barrow
#85. Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.
Isaac Barrow
#86. I've come this come all this way and suddenly I'm back in the arena, watching Silvers display everything we are not.
Victoria Aveyard
#87. We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.
Isaac Barrow
#88. That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
Isaac Barrow
#89. Prior to then it was believed that black holes were just cosmic cookie monsters, swallowing everything that came within their gravitational clutches.
John D. Barrow
#90. As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
Isaac Barrow
#91. If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.
Isaac Barrow
#92. It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.
Isaac Barrow
#93. We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.
Isaac Barrow
#94. Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.
Isaac Barrow
#95. Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.
Isaac Barrow
#96. What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.
John D. Barrow
#97. There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.
John D. Barrow
#98. Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.
Isaac Barrow
#99. Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
Isaac Barrow
#100. In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security.
Isaac Barrow
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