#che

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#devise #irish #nation #now #old

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#best #himself #his #inspires #listener

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#big #big deal #content #days #deal

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors. ↗

— Jack Cade

#cherish #commons #destroy #duke #england

They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic. ↗

— Jens Bjørneboe

#injustice #nietzsche #death

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#discovering #fashion #find #finding #interested

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. ↗

— Maria Callas

#best #between #difference #ends #foresee

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. ↗

— David Cameron

#approaches #baltic #banished #been #churchill

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. ↗

— James Cameron

#budget #camera #cheesy #director #everything

Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand. ↗

— John Cameron

#chest #explain #few #many #patient