Bestower Properties Quotes & Sayings

To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole; — Donna Tartt

The body, whether it be human, mammal or insect, is nothing more than a machine designed as a vehicle intended to be used by the "soul." The brain, is perfected engineering inspired by divinity. Therefore, the world we see and touch is just an illusion because life and death are one in the same; essentially, we are heaven, eternal and ever lasting. — Alejandro C. Estrada

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part. — Stephen Hawking

Adults could be barefaced liars too, of course, and about no subject so much as their own bodies. In Lib's experience, those who wouldn't cheat a shopkeeper by a farthing would lie about how much brandy they drank or whose room they'd entered and what they'd done there. Girls bursting out of their stays denied their condition till the pangs gripped them. Husbands swore blind that their wives' smashed faces were none of their doing. Everybody was a repository of secrets. — Emma Donoghue

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race. — Emil Zatopek

We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that
for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.'
There was no satisfactory answer. — Jonas Salk

Wake up and smell the burning rubber. — E.G. Jensen

Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are. — Jessica Green

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined. — Wesley Snipes

History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses. — Michael P. Naughton

and the righteous cowed and the evil grew bold. — Leon Uris

how can she love a man who is busy loving someone he can never get his hands on again. — Rupi Kaur