Grauer Orthodontics Quotes & Sayings

What's this?' she asked. 'Is it a sphinx?'
Yes,' he answered, 'and the sphinx is you. — Ivan Turgenev

The accidental balance on the side of Progress was far slighter and infinitely more complex and delicate in its adjustments than the people of that time suspected; but that did not alter the fact that it was an effective balance. They did not realize that this age of relative good fortune was an age of immense but temporary opportunity for their kind. They complacently assumed a necessary progress towards which they had no moral responsibility. They did not realize that this security of progress was a thing still to be won or lost, and that the time to win it was a time that passed. They went about their affairs energetically enough, and yet with a curious idleness towards those threatening things. No one troubled over the real dangers of mankind. — H.G.Wells

The main thing is to write
for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust
that imagines its haven like your hands at night
dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.
You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.
Take off from here. — Seamus Heaney

I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did. — Robert Smith

There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness. — Noah Hawley

If he mistreated and abused his last girlfriend, why would you want to be his new girlfriend? — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I thought of my own self fifteen years ago, and how much I've changed in the same period. The me who exists today and the me who existed then, if put side by side, would look more than vaguely similar. But we are a completely different collection of molecules, with different hairlines and waistlines, and, it sometimes seems, little in common besides our names. What binds that me to this me, and allows me to maintain the illusion that there is continuity from moment to moment and year to year, is some relatively stable but gradually evolving thing at the nucleus of my being. Call it a soul, or a self, or an emergent by-product of a neural network, but whatever you want to call it, that element of continuity is entirely dependent on memory. — Joshua Foer

One could say lightning is the marriage of fire and air." "One could say mud is the marriage of water and earth," he said dismissively. — Sherry Thomas

One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart. — Simone Elkeles

I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane. — J.J. Abrams

I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7. — Susan Polgar

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. — Roger Penrose