Bassett Va Quotes & Sayings

The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest lawsof atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience. — Willard Van Orman Quine

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Trust me, dear girl, you were born for love, for loving and caring and healing." She — Melanie Dickerson

I am not okay. I will be okay, but right now I am not okay. I want my husband to put his arms around me, to console me, to baby me a little bit. Just for a second. — Gillian Flynn

They had a sound basis of union. Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him. — Ernest Hemingway,

The means are ... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of the people," the abbe was saying. "It is only necessary for one powerful nation like Russia - barbaric as she is said to be - to place herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the world! — Leo Tolstoy

Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love. — Richard Rohr

Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef, I saw something - I don't know what it was to this day. My mind couldn't relate to what it was ... If I saw it and knew it was a shark, I wouldn't be as afraid, but I saw something that looked prehistoric, and I haven't been snorkeling since. — Ving Rhames

But a spider was, after all, only a spider. Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there was nothing with which the human mind could not cope. — Stephen King

I've thought for some time that the answer to a lot of problems in the Middle East, including Iran, include an active role with Russia. And I think, in some ways, we've taken show votes in the U.N. that are guaranteed to failure before we take them. — Rand Paul

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it. — Alanis Morissette

Astrology is a disease, not a science. — Maimonides

I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation. — Ayad Allawi

Rose has a good heart, of course, especially for one that has been broken every week for the past twenty years. — Jonathan Rice

Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you really don't want to smile at. Do it for Peace. — Mother Teresa