Codevilla Country Quotes & Sayings

The transitions from metallic to critical behavior and from critical to insulating behavior have been induced with a magnetic field, and from insulating to critical and then to metallic behavior with increasing external pressure. — Alan J. Heeger

Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and have a good time. — Bob Barr

On the Subject of Non-American Blacks Suffering from Illnesses Whose Names They Refuse to Know. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Spirit is strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It may, after all, be alright to do something scary without thinking, but not when the scariness is the not thinking itself. — David Foster Wallace

Sometimes the hardest, bravest thing in the world is to let someone love you. — Jennifer Probst

You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated it, you have to put it aside and see within. That's the whole method of meditation, awareness, watchfulness. — Rajneesh

Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe? — Abigail Reynolds

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. — Ramana Maharshi

Before the war, the domain of culture seemed to offer a haven from the increasingly hateful world of politics. Now, when I hear the word culture, I pull out the quote commonly attributed to Hermann Goring: When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver. — Aleksandar Hemon

When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood. — Samuel Johnson