Clerici Dex Quotes & Sayings

The irregularities of the motion of Uranus ... in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet beyond it.
[John Couch Adams on how he began to discover Neptune.] — John Couch Adams

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness. — Helen McCloy

If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness. — Jay Adams

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. — Epictetus

We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there. — Immanuel Kant

The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor. — Emilio Ambasz

I don't need any bonus material to throw me over the edge later.
Or don a flight of stairs, under a bus, and straight back to the mental ward. — Myra McEntire

My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV. — Christian Slater

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path. — Mary Webb

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time. — Tom Holt

we talk of plans that are going to happen.
we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.

there is a sort of comfort in that. — AVA.

The distance between us feels too close, too far, too close. — Stephanie Perkins

This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected. — Sherry Turkle

Authentic love does not devalue another human being. Authentic love does not silence, shame or abuse. If you are in a relationship with someone who does not honor and respect you, I want you to know that you are worthy of love. Please reach out for help. Your voice will save you. Let it extend into the night, let it part the darkness. Let it set you free to know who you truly are - valuable, beautiful, loved. — Brooke Axtell

The truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership. — Jack McDevitt