Angstroms To Picometers Quotes & Sayings

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own. — Alan Lightman

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. — Albert Einstein

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. — Charles Eames

In every moment, the Universe is whispering to you. You're constantly surrounded by signs, coincidences, and synchronicities , all aimed at propelling you in the direction of your destiny. — Denise Linn

There are some bad qualities which make great talents. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven. — Adrian Rogers

I experienced it as a compulsion to self-destruct. I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more different ways I'd find to screw it up. — Steven Pressfield

He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as a divine law and not as a book of a human being, made for education or entertainment. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place. — Paulo Coelho

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it). — George E.P. Box

People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make love and compassion fruitful ... It takes just a second to say 'love'. But to acquire knowledge for the well-being and blessing of humanity requires an eternity. — H. P. Blavatsky

All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is. — Joseph Campbell

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life. — Sidney Poitier

Whenever we read a book we love, we change it, to some extent. We read into it our own interpretations, and the meanings which the words have taken on in our time. If a book is so rigid that it cannot lend itself to these fluctuations, it is useful only while it seems strictly true, and afterwards it is completely out of date. — John Erskine