Candelora Significato Quotes & Sayings

About eight days ago I discovered that sulfur in burning, far from losing weight, on the contrary, gains it; it is the same with phosphorus; this increase of weight arises from a prodigious quantity of air that is fixed during combustion and combines with the vapors. This discovery, which I have established by experiments, that I regard as decisive, has led me to think that what is observed in the combustion of sulfur and phosphorus may well take place in the case of all substances that gain in weight by combustion and calcination; and I am persuaded that the increase in weight of metallic calyxes is due to the same cause ... This discovery seems to me one of the most interesting that has been made since Stahl and since it is difficult not to disclose something inadvertently in conversation with friends that could lead to the truth I have thought it necessary to make the present deposit to the Secretary of the Academy to await the time I make my experiments public. — Antoine Lavoisier

If guilt's a luxury, then I'm a plutocrat. — Fritz Leiber

It's so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world. — Josh Turner

It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit. — Orson Scott Card

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. — Gilbert White

Even with billions of candles, you cannot create a Sun; with billions of lies, a single Truth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes. — Brian Eno

I can't say I agree with something that takes the focus away from me. — Zach Braff

One needs great tenacity and a tremendous will to begin such an enterprise at all. And I should like to say this to you: If I had this faith, I had it only because I knew the people and because I had no doubts as to the quality of the German people. — Adolf Hitler

Yes, she loved her ship more than she had loved him. But what she loved even more was what it gave her: freedom, and the key to the marvels of space. It gave her the stars, and she doubted she could ever love anything or anyone more than she loved the stars. — G.S. Jennsen

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. — Frans De Waal

Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed. — William Shakespeare

Most of your healing journey will be about unlearning the patterns of self-protection that once kept you safe. — Vironika Tugaleva

At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance. — Hill Harper

Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it. — Thalassa Cruso