Familles Chimiques Quotes & Sayings

I think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand words and at the end, sum it up in one sentence; I am more for the one sentence. I am more for the essence. It's like how you need a truckload of roses to extract one drop of rose oil; I don't want to bother with the truckload of roses because I would rather walk away with the drop of rose oil. So in my mind, I have written two hundred books. Why? Because I have with me two hundred vials with one drop of essence in each! — C. JoyBell C.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses. — Henry Ward Beecher

It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around. — Gerry Adams

Laughter from yesterday that makes the heart giggle today brightens the perspective for tomorrow. — Evinda Lepins

I think people have learned that Herbie Hancock can be defined as someone that you won't be able to figure out what he's going to do next. The sky is the limit as far as I'm concerned. — Herbie Hancock

We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean. — Gore Vidal

If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless. — Carew Papritz

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. — Thaddeus Stevens

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace. — Alfred Nobel

Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model. — Ruth Benedict

There are more things in people that are rather worth of admiration than contempt. — Albert Camus

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' — Abraham Lincoln

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers. — Thomas Jefferson

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England. — Rudyard Kipling