quotes about Lordship

“A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”

“Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.”

“You can't control the weather, but there are definitely things you can do to protect yourself and the investment you've made in your boat. The key is to get started early so you have the supplies you need and you have a plan for what you're going to do with your boat.”

“Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.”

“This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.”

“You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.”

“The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.”

Source : Meg Wolitzer (2011). “The Uncoupling: A Novel”, p.16, Penguin

“Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.”

Source : Cheikh Anta Diop, E. Curtis Alexander, Mwalimu Imara Mwadilifu (1984). “Cheikh Anta Diop: an African scientist : an axiomatic overview of his teachings and thoughts”, Eca Assoc

“Failure is our most important product.”

“So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.”