Accuracy Facts are God’s arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. Tryon Edwards Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. Charles Simmons Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. Adlai E. Stevenson Accuracy of statement is … [Read more…]
Quotes on Accidents Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage. – Henry Adams How true it is that out destinies are decided by nothing and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and … [Read more…]
Acceptance The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. Russell Lynes Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has … [Read more…]
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike — and I don’t think there really is a distinction between the two — are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her … [Read more…]
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts You can never get enough of what you don’t want. Wayne Dyer He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough … [Read more…]
Absurdity The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Friedrich Nietzsche Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. … [Read more…]