Aikuiset Quotes & Sayings

She was very busy fighting a full-facial, saltwater cavity wash when two big hands gripped her arms and hauled her upright. — Jill Shalvis

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm, — Tomas Transtromer

I finally figured out a way to test whether you have taught an idea or you have only taught a definition. Test it this way: You say, 'Without using the new word which you have just learned, try to rephrase what you have just learned in your own language. Without using the word "energy," tell me what you know now about the dog's motion.' You cannot. So you learned nothing about science. That may be all right. You may not want to learn something about science right away. You have to learn definitions. But for the very first lesson, is that not possibly destructive? — Richard Feynman

Facts are certainly the solid and true foundation of all sectors of nature study ... Reasoning must never find itself contradicting definite facts; but reasoning must allow us to distinguish, among facts that have been reported, those that we can fully believe, those that are questionable, and those that are false. It will not allow us to lend faith to those that are directly contrary to others whose certainty is known to us; it will not allow us to accept as true those that fly in the face of unquestionable principles. — Rene Antoine Ferchault De Reaumur

Don't you feel as if you just loved the world on a morning like this? — L.M. Montgomery

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois. — Tom Vilsack

You can't make anything without making mistakes, do you know what I mean? Robert De Niro's in the 'Rocky and Bullwinkle' film. There's a lot of far greater people than me who have made mistakes in their careers ... There's loads of people who have made stuff that isn't good and never get asked about it. — James Corden

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate. — Benjamin F. Wade

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific. — Esther Hicks

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime. — Andy Stern

It is amazing how great life can be when you start Living your dreams rather than just Dreaming about them. — Kevin W. Courington

My lover's gone off
to some foreign country,
sopping wet at our doorway
I watch the clouds rupture.
Mira says, nothing can harm him.
This passion has yet
to be slaked. — Mirabai

She emanated that aura of grandeur that replaces sexual allure in the successful older woman. — Robert Galbraith

Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in Divine power-these are the true remedies. — Ellen G. White