Tom Stoppard Quotes

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others.

Tom Stoppard

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MathematicsQueenI AmCertaintyLed

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.

John Chrysostom

WomenLawNothingOthersDivine

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

John Henry Newman

MenWordsIdeasThinkStandNothing

I'm not hugging the Guantanamo location, but our right to hold people under the laws of war as enemy combatants, I think, is unarguable, and we need to stand up for that.

Michael Hayden

WarPeopleStand UpThinkStandUp

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.

Michael Ignatieff

WorkLawSocietyResultUnique

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Stephen King

LiveWinSometimesInsideRealUs

I don't do what I do to get nominated. I do what I do because I love it.

Tracee Ellis Ross

LoveBecauseGetNominatedI Love

Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fire each morning, and I remember the celebratory bonfires at the end of the war. It was from staring into fire that I began my first poetry.

Tony Harrison

MorningLightFireJobWarPoetry

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

Rose Kennedy

LifeAgeI AmNowReminisceFull

The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley.

Jonathan Levine

HomeMusicSongBuildingKindWay

'Jurassic Park' movies don't fit into a specific genre. They're sci-fi adventures that also have to be funny, emotional, and scary as hell. That takes a lot of construction, but it can't feel designed.

Colin Trevorrow

FunnyConstructionHellFeelMovies

Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass with three silver bar jacks swimming in front of her nose.

Brian Skerry

SeaBeachSwimmingLongTigerPlace

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

Peter M. Brant

LifeCharacterThinkWayRealField

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