"Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness."

“Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.”

Source : Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.80, Hachette UK

“Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited--or even to remain idle and go hungry when it is not in the interest of the bosses to exploit them. We are therefore enemies of the State which is the coercive violent organization of society.”

“Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.”

“For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?”

“Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.”

“An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development in mathematics since the invention of calculus 300 years ago.”

Source : Stephen Smale, Roderick Wong (2000). “The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale”, p.814, World Scientific

“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”

“It may be those who do most, dream most.”

Source : Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.52, University of Toronto Press