Union Street Pat Barker Quotes

#1. It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can be fully and completely explained, in all its circumstances, without a union of several, perhaps of all, the sciences.

John Herschel

#2. My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#3. Leaders who won't own failures become failures.

Orrin Woodward

#4. The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

#5. There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.

George Foreman

#6. In India: A Wounded Civilization, Naipaul writes that 'the Indian way of experiencing' means that 'the outer world matters only in so far as it affects the inner'.

Ian Jack

#7. After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

Bjarne Stroustrup