Thorkell Quotes

#1. Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

Hall Caine

#2. By your side I'm most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.

Franz Kafka

#3. It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.

Efim Geller

#4. Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

Melanie Klein

#5. The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.

Elizabeth Lesser

#6. This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers.

Mark Lilla

#7. High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity - even among the college-educated.

Daphne Koller

#8. I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

Barry Commoner

#9. It's the things that we know FOR SURE, that just ain't so, that get us into trouble.

Wayne Dyer

#10. Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

Tony Fadell

#11. I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon.

David Foster Wallace

#12. One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Frank Herbert

#13. What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Karl Kraus

#14. Hardly makes the blackmailing seem worth it, doesn't it?

K.M. Morgan