Allie Becksrtom Quotes & Sayings

In the course of writing 'First Light,' I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, where I found rooms, stairways, tunnels, and abandoned machines leaking oil. My notebooks show tooth-marks where I gripped them with my teeth while climbing around inside the telescope, and the notebooks are stained with Flying Horse telescope oil. — Richard Preston

It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before-human experience-is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know. — Ray Lyman Wilbur

What it comes down to for me is that I'd rather us make bad decisions as a group, than to live in the absence of freedom. — Blake Crouch

I'm an athlete. I'm strong. I'm tough. And that's how women should be. That's how they should be built. — Bristol Palin

Maybe we would've been better off if those memories had never been sent. Maybe we could learn to breathe again if we could only forget tomorrow. — Pintip Dunn

How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail! — Alexander Pope

In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't. — Warren Buffett

He'd already put a shirt on each leg and had stacked every shoe I owned into a precarious pyramid. The room looked like a small, overly curious tornado had torn it apart.
"You have got to be kidding me," I said. "Maybe I should give you to Shamus. — Devon Monk

Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor. — Francis Chan