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“There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.”
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“In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?”
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“The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.”
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“There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.”
Source : Paul Pearsall (2007). “AWE: The Delights and Dangers of Our Eleventh Emotion”, p.27, Health Communications, Inc.
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“...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...”
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“I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.”
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“Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.”
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“A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.”
Source : Walter Bagehot (1910). “Literary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley”
