Byron Herbert Reece Quotes

Forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums ~ Zbigniew Herbert

Hope clouds observation. ~ Frank Herbert

There is no use in lecturing unless a class is listening. And they will only listen if you are saying something they think they can understand and seems relevant. If you pace up and down you can tell from their moving head whether they are following you. ~ Herbert A. Simon

And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord. ~ George Gordon Byron

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary. ~ Frank Herbert

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function. ~ Herbert Simon

Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order. ~ Frank Herbert

People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself. ~ Byron Katie

The storm of revolution,' as Andre Chenier said, 'blows out the torch of poetry.' It is not for some little time that the real influence of such a wild cataclysm of things is felt: at first the desire for equality seems to have produced personalities of more giant and Titan stature than the world had ever known before. Men heard the lyre of Byron and the legions of Napoleon; it was a period of measureless passions and of measureless despair; ambition, discontent, were the chords of life and art; the age was an age of revolt: a phase through which the human spirit must pass, but one in which it cannot rest. For the aim of culture is not rebellion but peace, the valley perilous where ignorant armies clash by night being no dwelling-place meet for her to whom the gods have assigned the fresh uplands and sunny heights and clear, untroubled air. And soon that desire for perfection, which lay at the base of the Revolution, found in a young English poet its most complete and flawless realisation. ~ Oscar Wilde

There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who continue to learn and to grow intellectually until the day they die. And these usually are the people who make contributions, who leave some part of the world a little better off than it was before they entered it. ~ William Herbert Sheldon

Death and horror are always near us. The challenge is to get on with our lives and be happy when we can always see them out of the corner of our eye, blurred, but still recognisable in the background. ~ Gordon Reece

Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man. ~ George Herbert

Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have increased the standards of living and comfort. They have eliminated infinite drudgery. They have increased leisure. But that gives more time for devilment. The work of science has eliminated much disease and suffering. It has increased the length of life. That, together with increase in productivity, has resulted in vastly increased populations. Also it increased the number of people engaged in devilment. ~ Herbert Hoover

The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave and manifest public need. They can be made permanently unselfish only by being helped to become disinterested in their individual purposes. In the complete democracy a man must in some way be made to serve the nation in the very act of contributing to his own individual fulfillment. Not until his personal action is dictated by disinterested motives can there be any such harmony between private and public interests. ~ Herbert Croly

The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous. ~ Herbert Wilf

You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again. ~ Byron Katie

Sometimes I wonder about Piter," the Baron said. "I cause pain out of necessity, but he ... I swear he takes a positive delight in it."
-Baron Vladimir ~ Frank Herbert

Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage. ~ Lord Byron

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
[Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.] ~ George Herbert

The fact of our salvation being not something, but Someone, produces
quietness of spirit and an unshakable confidence. ~ Herbert Lockyer

Some Democrats and their advocates in the press believe Obamacare, a year into implementation, is no longer much of a factor in the midterm elections. But no one has told Republican candidates, who are still pounding away at the Affordable Care Act on the stump. And no one has told voters, especially those in states with closely contested Senate races, who regularly place it among the top issues of the campaign. ~ Byron York

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still. ~ George Herbert

The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action. ~ Herbert Schiller

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future. ~ Herbert Hoover

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. ~ George Herbert

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs. ~ Herbert A. Simon

Take the gentle path. ~ George Herbert

We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively. ~ Herbert Benson

My house, my house, though thou art small, Thou art to me the Escurial. ~ George Herbert

Art is pattern informed by sensibility. ~ Herbert Read

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger. ~ George Herbert

It's very nice there are people in this world who are so happy to see you they want to hug you. ~ Julie Reece Deaver

Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said. ~ Frank Herbert

True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame
But borrowed thence to light us thither.
Beauty and beauteous words should go together. ~ George Herbert

Education has for its object the formation of character. ~ Herbert Spencer

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge. ~ Lord Byron

Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths - the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated warrior. This is a deeply moving account of the last years of a very great man, ~ David Herbert Donald

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil. ~ Herbert Hoover

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die. ~ George Gordon Byron

The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
[The little cannot be great unless he devour many.] ~ George Herbert