Quotes
Authors
Harold Percival
"Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance." --
Source : Harold W. Percival (2002). “Thinking And Destiny”, p.48, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Harold Percival
#Thinking Quotes
#World Quotes
#Rooms Quotes
“It is difficult to predict the outcome of any Presidency, but with Donald Trump the worst-case scenarios seem particularly plausible, because he is so uninterested in the safeguards that might prevent them.”
Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“I'm a performer. We don't retire.”
“The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.”
“Religion is a byproduct of fear,”
“The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.”
Source : Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”
“I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.”
“I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where I am when I look up at the sky. I know where I am when I look up at the Moon; it's not just some abstract romantic idea, it's something very real to me. See, I've expanded my home.”
