"I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace."

-- John Vianney

#People Quotes #Grace Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all.”
“I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.”
“I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.”
“The solar system is so humongous big.”
“Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.”

Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Prologue, p. 15), 2006.
“He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.”

Source : Writing of Byron in her journal after their first meeting at a ball in March, 1812: Elizabeth Jenkins 'Lady Caroline Lamb' (1932) ch. 6.
“I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.”
“You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.”

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