Avalancha Heroes Quotes & Sayings

War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am. — Stephen Farrell

It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do- more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you. — Sarah Dessen

I've got dreams and goals waiting for me to catch up to them — Teresa Garcia

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. — Jeremiah Wright

It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions. — Eric Betzig

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. — Epicurus

Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else. — Fred Rogers

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing. — Mel Brooks

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides. — John Burroughs

The difficult truth is that the basic law of thermodynamics still holds: When we eat more calories than we expend, we gain weight. When we burn more energy through physical activity or exercise than we take in from food and drinks, we lose weight. — Thich Nhat Hanh

We have to practice to become perfect. — Swami Vivekananda

Sentimentality could blind a man to the truth. Those who appear the most trustworthy deserve the most suspicion. — Tom Rob Smith

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it. — William C. Brown

Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis. But down there, there is no sun, there is no photosynthesis; it's chemosynthetic environment down there driving it, and it's all so ephemeral. — Mike DeGruy

I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but I don't tweet. I don't want to have to express my opinion in 140 characters. That's like writing haiku. You need a certain amount of legroom to review a play properly. — Ben Brantley