Quotes & Sayings About Celebrating Milestones

Hey, no offense, but do you mind if you put both your palms where I can see 'em? — J.R. Ward

you can't simply compare a hypothesis to a single competing model and treat that one alternative suggestion as a substitute for all the remaining options. — Lisa Randall

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with. — Lance Loud

I had a millisecond to decide what kind of friend I wanted to be. — Katrina Abbott

The McCarthy period came along ... and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I sacrifice myself? I am a scientist, I am supposed to be working on scientific things, so I don't need to put myself at risk by talking about these possibilities." And I have said that perhaps I'm just stubborn ... I have said "I don't like anybody to tell me what to do or to think, except Mrs. Pauling." — Linus Pauling

Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies ... — Eileen Chang

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating. — Gilbert Highet

For years and years I struggled
just to love my life. And then

the butterfly
rose, weightless, in the wind.
"Don't love you life
too much," it said,

and vanished
into the world. — Mary Oliver

I think the low emotional moments happen for every author. This is the time to find a sturdy mental ballast & realize self-doubt storms pass--you know, the same way hurricanes do. — Rebecca Taylor

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law. — William J. Brennan