"No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees."

-- J. C. Ryle

#Prayer Quotes #Knees Quotes #Wells Quotes

“It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle ...”
“...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upward and, just when you thought you'd reach your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less oppressive. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many other people were trapped in that place with her.”
“The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work”
“As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.”
“My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.”
“The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.”
“Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.132, Macmillan
“If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann mÃ¼ssen sie Deutsch sprechen.”

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