In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
ALAN LIGHTMANFar must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e’er lies.
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Meet the difficult while it is easy.
LAOZI -
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
VERA WANG -
I don’t really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It’s a bad idea, terrible. I’ve met creative-writing majors from other places and they don’t know a goddamn thing. They’re the worst students. They just think they’re good because they could pass.
BARRY HANNAH -
Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.
PRINCESS DIANA -
One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It’s the basics. Blocking and tackling.
CHRIS GARDNER -
So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA -
Love is one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
ARIANA GRANDE -
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
ALFRED NOBEL -
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
BILL GRIFFITH -
You were my home for so long. Now I realize that humans cannot be homes. If homes can leave, then they are not homes.
NAJWA ZEBIAN -
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP -
I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it’s scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS -
Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That’s my motto.
BARBARA BRETTON -
Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
AGNES DENES -
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
ALAN GARNER -
One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.
ADAM BRODY -
Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
TYLER PERRY -
I am more interested in the woman I aspire to be, as opposed to the things I desire to have. By the time I am her, I’ll already have everything she could possibly want and need.
DAU VOIRE -
I don’t know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
BARRY BONDS -
In summer the empire of insects spreads.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
VINCENT VAN GOGH -
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
HELEN KELLER -
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
JORGE LUIS BORGES