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Favourite Quotations


- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1

- A difference is a difference only if it makes difference.
Unknown

- One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.
Sophocles


Research

- Probability is the very guide of life.
Cicero

- There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.
Disraeli

- All models are wrong, but some are useful.
George Edward Pelham Box

- Rubbish in => Rubbish out.
David I. Sales

- All generalizations are dangerous -- including this one!
Alexander Dumas

- (about writing mathematics) Begin at the beginning, go on till you come to the end, and then, with no further ado, stop.
Paul R. Halmos


Winston Churchill

- Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never... In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honour and good sense!

When Nancy Astor said to Churchill: "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.", Winston riposted with: "Nancy, if I were your husband, I would drink it."

- Do stop interrupting me while I am interrupting you!

- My most brilliant achievement was to persuade my wife to marry me.


John Lennon

- Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.


Joseph Stalin

- We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

- Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

- I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this -- who will count the votes, and how.


Politics

- (about Stalin) He had found Russia working with wooden ploughs and is leaving her equipped with atomic piles.
Isaac Deutscher

- We wanted the best, but it turned out as always.
Viktor Chernomyrdin


From the Bible

- Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Luke 11:9

- Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:4,7


Friendship

- A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Anonymous

- There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.
Laura Moncur

- Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams

- Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
G. Randolf

- We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.
Tim McGraw


General

- Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir. Amen.
Martin Luther

- There are three kinds of people: those who make things happen; those who watch what goes on; and those who don't know what happened.
Nicolas Murray Butler

- Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
Christopher Reeve

- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
St. Augustine