Quotes of: Lamentation Keyword

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Voltaire

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

David Ogden Stiers

In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest is going to get them excited? People enjoy fantasy, and that is just what mathematics can provide --...

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there" all along I just couldn't see it. And now I can! This is really what keeps me in the math game-- the chance that I might gl...

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a production being made over something so simple is to make people doubt their own intuition. Calling into question the obvious by insi...

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

Mathematics is . To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion—not because it makes no sense to you, but because you it sense and you still don't understand what your ...

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making — even more than storytelling, painting, or music - is our most quintessentially human art form. This is what our brains do, whether we like it or not. We are bi...

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

I was a big 'X-Files' fan. I always lamented that I never got to be on 'The X-Files'.

Michael Cerveris

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

John Thorn

I'm busy, man, too busy. There's a lamentable absence of free time.

Juan Pablo Montoya

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.

Julius Wellhausen

So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is a unique art form within the world of rational science. We are trying...

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.

Even Vampires Get the Blues

Live desired in the world, and die lamented.

Christ Is Best

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

Harry Reid

When you weep and lament, you will struggle to achieve and rejoice.

Auliq Ice

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Charles Kennedy