Brinkers Oil Quotes & Sayings

Light renders healthy. — Victor Hugo

Anyone who made it through the screening and the training required to become an Arkie" - which doesn't include you, Julia - "will understand exactly what we are trying to do from an orbital mechanics standpoint. — Neal Stephenson

What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an end that has in fact been achieved? — Immanuel Wallerstein

He despised philosophy as soft and unverifiable. Philosophers "are always on the outside making stupid remarks," he said, and the word he pronounced philozawfigal was a mocking epithet, but his influence was philosophical anyway, particularly for younger physicists. — James Gleick

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time. — Orhan Pamuk

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive. — Hope Mirrlees

Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people. — Marianne Williamson

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory. — Zig Ziglar

I love throwing myself into a place or a period or a point of view. In 'Fledermaus,' I loved throwing myself into the world of Vienna at the turn of the century. It was a lot of fun. — Douglas Carter Beane

Just girt me for the onset with Eternity,
When breath blew back,
And on the other side
I heard recede the disappointed tide! — Emily Dickinson

Some drawings are better than others ... Some are utterly spoiled ... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing ... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways. — Walter J. Phillips

Set emergency goals to achieve the main ones. In this way, you won't abandon your resolutions and even failures will make you stronger. — Victoria Herocten

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge. — Kiefer Sutherland

Some people will follow their minds without listening to their hearts, and others will follow their hearts without listening to their minds. This is why reason exists, for there to be balance between the heart and mind. We were not meant to follow the mind and ignore the heart. Instead, we were meant to follow the heart over the mind, but without completely abandoning logic. The middle way is the preferred way, and this path simply means to allow your heart to drive you, but do not forget to balance reason with your conscience. — Suzy Kassem

Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor. — Barbara W. Tuchman