Quotes of: Lectures Keyword

I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint lecture to something that looks like an informercial to something that looks like a cinematic melodrama.

Elizabeth Price

If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself...

Luther's Works Lectures on Galatians/Chapters 5-6 Chapters 1-6

Sorti de la bibliothèque, il serre sous son bras les trésors empruntés. La lumière des réverbères permet de commencer la lecture dans la rue. La psyché du futur philosophe se nourrit de ce monde inédit, méconnu, inconnu. Camus découvre le f...

L'ordre libertaire: la vie philosophique d'Albert Camus

Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great showed in the ordinary-affairs of life an absence of mind which has become proverbial. It is related that one day, wishing to find the number of seconds necessary for the boiling of an egg, h...

Popular Astronomy: A General Description of the Heavens

After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'.

G. K. Chesterton: A Biography

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

1984

Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

The Satyrs Of Decimus Junius Juvenalis And Of Aulus Persius Flaccus

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?

The Last Lecture

When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

The Last Lecture

Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness.

Lectures on The South: A Collection of Studies

Lire est un voyage. On ne peut pas arriver avant d'être parti. On ne peut pas partir sans avoir envie d'arriver. Mais : être entre ! Là, réside le vrai délice : le parcours. La lecture.

Salicande

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

Stello

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

The essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory output.' 'I continued to lecture a bit more, to disguise the fact that I was getting my ass handed to me by my dog.

Tricked

Love is a roundness, like a hole—a black hole. If what she wants is space, I’ll give her space—enough to fill an auditorium that has ample seating for a lecture by Stephen Hawking.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano.

Toward the Splendid City: Nobel Lecture

I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.

Peter Carey

I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

Paul Engle