Gilbert Parker (1862-1932)
Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet (23 November 1862 – 6 September 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, was a Canadian novelist and British politician.
Quotes·Quotations by Gilbert Parker
Memory
@ There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
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@ Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture; it comforteth when there are no medicines; it hath the relish of manna; and by it do men live in the desert.
"The White Omen"
@ That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.
"The White Omen"
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gilbert_Parker
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)
Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time who was ranked as the third greatest female screen legend in the history of American cinema. Remembered as both a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century, Hepburn redefined glamour with "elfin" features and a gamine waif-like figure that inspired designs by Givenchy and earned her place in the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.
Born in Ixelles, a district of Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem during the Second World War, where she studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam before moving to London in 1948 to continue ballet training with Marie Rambert and perform as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions.
After appearing in several British films and starring in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi, Hepburn gained instant Hollywood stardom for playing the Academy Award-winning lead role in Roman Holiday (1953). Later performing in Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), My Fair Lady (1964) and Wait Until Dark (1967), Hepburn became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age who received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations and accrued a Tony Award for her theatrical performance in the 1954 Broadway play Ondine. Hepburn remains one of few people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards.
She appeared in fewer films as her life went on, devoting much of her later life to UNICEF. Her war-time struggles inspired her passion for humanitarian work and, although contributing to the organisation since 1954, she worked in some of the most profoundly disadvantaged communities of Africa, South America and Asia between 1988 and 1992. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in late 1992, but a month later, aged 63, Hepburn died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland in early 1993.
Quotes·Quotation by Audrey Hepburn
Belief
¶ I believe in pink, I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Contact
¶ People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Help
¶ Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Success
¶ I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Blaise Pascal (French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.
In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines. After three years of effort and fifty prototypes,[1] he invented the mechanical calculator.[2][3] He built 20 of these machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines) in the following ten years.[4] Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Following Galileo and Torricelli, in 1646 he refuted Aristotle's followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. Pascal's results caused many disputes before being accepted.
In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism.[5] His father died in 1651. Following a mystical experience in late 1654, he had his "second conversion", abandoned his scientific work, and devoted himself to philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits. In this year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetical triangle. Between 1658 and 1659 he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids.
Pascal had poor health especially after his 18th year and his death came just two months after his 39th birthday.[6]
Quotes·Quotations by Blaise Pascal
Habit
¶ Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I’m very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Silence
¶ The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
References
[1]^ (fr) La Machine d’arithmétique, Blaise Pascal, Wikisource
[2]^ Marguin, Jean (1994). Histoire des instruments et machines à calculer, trois siècles de mécanique pensante 1642–1942 (in fr). Hermann. p. 48. ISBN 978-2-7056-6166-3.
[3]^ d'Ocagne, Maurice (1893). Le calcul simplifié (in fr). Gauthier-Villars et fils. p. 245.
[4]^ Mourlevat, Guy (1988). Les machines arithmétiques de Blaise Pascal (in fr). Clermont-Ferrand: La Française d'Edition et d'Imprimerie. p. 12.
[5]^ "Blaise Pascal". Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
[6]^ Hald, Anders A History of Probability and Statistics and Its Applications before 1750, (Wiley Publications, 1990) pp.44
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Quotes·Quotations by Agnes Repplier
Appearance
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@ A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Quotes·Quotations by Agnes Repplier
Appearance
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@ A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Catherine Ashton (1956- )
Catherine Ashton (1956- )
Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, PC (born 20 March 1956) is a British Labour politician who in 2009 became the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union. Under the Treaty of Lisbon, this post is combined with the post of Vice-President of the European Commission.
Quotes·Quotations by Catherine Ashton
Japan
¶ Abe's visit to the shrine was not conducive to lowering tensions in the region or to improving relations with Japan's neighbors. (Dec 27, 2013)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Ashton
Elizabeth Ashley
Elizabeth Ashley
Quotes·Quotations by Elizabeth Ashley
Romance·Relationships
¶
@ In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Quotes·Quotations by Elizabeth Ashley
Romance·Relationships
¶
@ In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Artur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
Artur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
Arthur Rubinstein (January 28, 1887 – December 20, 1982) was a Polish-American classical pianist who received international acclaim for his performances of the music written by a variety of composers; many regard him as the greatest Chopin interpreter of his time. He is widely considered one of the greatest classical pianists of the twentieth century.
Quotes·Quotation
Attitude
¶ If I omit practice one day, I notice it. If two days the critics notice it. If three days the public notices it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rubinstein
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the four separate manifestations of reason in the phenomenal world.
Schopenhauer's most influential work, The World as Will and Representation, claimed that the world is fundamentally what humans recognize in themselves as their will. His analysis of will led him to the conclusion that emotional, physical, and sexual desires can never be fully satisfied. The corollary of this is an ultimately painful human condition. Consequently, he considered that a lifestyle of negating desires, similar to the ascetic teachings of Vedanta, Buddhism and the Church Fathers of early Christianity, was the only way to attain liberation.
Schopenhauer's metaphysical analysis of will, his views on human motivation and desire, and his aphoristic writing style influenced many well-known thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Gustav Jung, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, and Jorge Luis Borges.
Quotes·Quotation
Marriage
¶ To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1818-1896)
Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1818-1896)
Arthur Cleveland Coxe DD LLD (May 10, 1818 – July 20, 1896) was the second Episcopal bishop of New York. He used Cleveland as his given name and is often referred to as A. Cleveland Coxe.
Quotes·Quotation
Flower
¶ Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cleveland_Coxe
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