English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

William Kirby Quotes

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

William Kirby

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Will Rogers quote: "One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials."
One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials. Will Rogers
In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about. David Foster Wallace
Catherine McCormack quote: "In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it..."
In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson? Catherine McCormack
What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. Voltaire
Shirley Bassey quote: "I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same."
I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same. Shirley Bassey
Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of oursgrew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselvesfrom the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the stringto be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere. Rainer Maria Rilke
Greta Garbo quote: "There is no one who would have me - I can't cook."
There is no one who would have me - I can't cook. Greta Garbo
Victoria Woodhull quote: "I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of..."
I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice. Victoria Woodhull
Jeanette Rankin quote: "You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you..."
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. Jeanette Rankin
Thomas More quote: "It layeth not in my power but that they devour me. But...they..."
It layeth not in my power but that they devour me. But...they shall not deflower me. Thomas More
Pete Townshend quote: "I want to age with some dignity."
I want to age with some dignity. Pete Townshend
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. Ella Maillart
Luc de Clapiers quote: "To achieve great things we must live as though we were never..."
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. Luc de Clapiers
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this..."
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature. P. G. Wodehouse
An insane person believes his world is consistent. If hebelieves the government is trying to kill him, he will seeample evidence of his belief in the so-called real world. Hewill be wrong, but his evidence is no better or worse thanyour evidence that it rained this morning. Both of you willbe converting evidence of the present into impressionsstored in your minds and you will both be certain your evidenceis solid and irrefutable. Your mind will mold the factsand shape the clues until it all... Scott Adams