“Nature is cruel; it's man whose is sick of blood– and man doesn't seem so very sick of it...””
Quotes by Robert Arnold
“Arnold Palmer once said, “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening”
Showing Up to Play: Business & Life Lessons Learned on the Golf Course
“The man who to untimely death is doomed Vainly would hedge him in from the assault of harm; He bears the seed of ruin in himself.””
Merope, to which is appended the Electra of Sophocles, tr. by Robert Whitelaw; ed. by J. Churton Collins
“Against all odds, Bethlem survived. The Bishopsgate building endured the Civil War, the Great Plague of 1665 and the Fire of London a year later, after which the hospital’s governors realised that it needed a new home. In 1676 ‘New Bedlam’ opened in Moorfields, with patients transferred to a ‘palace beautiful’ designed by the genius polymath Robert Hooke.””
Bedlam: London and Its Mad
“As Berlin writes, in his reproach to the historians Edward Gibbon and Arnold Toynbee, “nations” and “civilizations,” while they exist, are not as “concrete” as the individuals who embody them.6 Individuals not only count morally to a greater extent than groups, but the very existence of the former is not inherently problematic like that of the latter. Groups, civilizations, and other mass human assemblages are either artificially constructed to some degree or other (by nationalist ideologues, for example), or in any case are not so clear-cut as they seem, owing to the subtle and not-so-subtle influences upon them of other groups and civilizations over considerable stretches of time. And yet””
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond