"My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian."

-- Jacob K. Javits

#Thinking Quotes #Franklin Quotes #Teddy Quotes

“There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.”
“Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.”
“When you got a guy that has purpose, now your in a dog fight.”
“Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.”
“Thereâ€™s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?”
“Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it.”
“At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.”
“The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. ... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.”

Source : Sir Ronald Ross (1988). “The Great Malaria Problem and Its Solution”

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