Worthies Quotes

#1. While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

Jane Jacobs

#2. I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

John Donne

#3. Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. I know who I am," said Don Quixote, "and who I may be, if I choose: not only those I have mentioned but all the Twelve Peers of France and the Nine Worthies as well; for the exploits of all of them together, or separately, cannot compare with mine.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#5. Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.

William Shakespeare

#6. I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

Maria Mitchell

#7. The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.

Megan Smith

#8. Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

Marianne Williamson

#9. No one alone can attain truth.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. I'm going to do this again," he rasped. "Lay you out where there isn't any damn part of you I can't taste. That's what I want. You.

Kit Rocha

#11. I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway

Jane Fonda

#12. Pointless ... Like giving caviar to an elephant.

William Faulkner

#13. You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

Joel Osteen

#14. A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#15. Censorship & Torture.
Netherlands, Nuenen
August 17, 2016
P.C.M. Hermans

Petra Hermans