Life is a progress, and not a station.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
Jean Rostand
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
Howard Nemerov
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
Loretta Lynn
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
From my earliest days I had a passion for science.
Joseph Rotblat
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
Ron Lewis
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
Noam Chomsky
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
Marilyn Monroe
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
Anne Lamott
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen Covey
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.
Denzel Washington
If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
Leo Rosten
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?
Sextus Propertius
We see things as we are, not as they are.
Satire is focused bitterness.
The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.
Ayelet Waldman
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.
Michelle Williams
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
Cat Stevens
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
Richard Meier
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Calvin Coolidge
It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.
Henry Reed
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