Haberlea Quotes & Sayings

Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for ever be unparalleled: but even he with his dark blue skies & the rare union of poetry with science which he so strongly displays when writing on tropical scenery, with all this falls far short of the truth,he averred. The delight one experiences in such times bewilders the mind; if the eye attempts to follow the flight of a gaudy butter-fly, it is arrested by some strange tree or fruit; if watching an insect one forgets it in the stranger flower it is crawling over; if turning to admire the splendor of the scenery, the individual character of the foreground fixes the attention. The mind is a chaos of delight, out of which a world of future & more quiet pleasure will arise. I am at present fit only to read Humboldt; he like another sun illuminates everything I behold. — Charles Darwin

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection. — Maurice Greene

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break. — Sara Teasdale

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong. — Russell D. Moore

'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic. — Diablo Cody

If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. — Edward Tufte

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. — Mark Twain

Really? I thought the transfers will go through Four's landscape," says Uriah.
"Like he would let anyone do that," she says, snorting.
Something inside me gets warm and soft. He let me go through it. — Veronica Roth

Fame is part of me and my life as an actor. I enjoy the creative aspects of my life as an actor. I enjoy directing and acting as well. But the bottom line for me is not prestige and power. It's about having an exciting, creative life. — Matt Dillon

Strength is not something you have, it's something you find. — Emma Smith

World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars. — David Frum