Hemmes De Marck Quotes & Sayings

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this ... will without much labour be effected. — Edmond Halley

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

I'm always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it's a sign of disrespect. It says that you think someone else is going to clean up after you: that you're not prepared to do it yourself. — Lara Logan

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country. — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

At last

don't be anything for me
be something which is
Clear as ocean water
Be cloud , but don't rain on me
Be sun, but don't shine for me
Be moon, but don't enlighten me
But be lucid, in what
You are to me
So that I can think, where do you exist — Arshad Ahmad

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences. — Henry David Thoreau

I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably. — Shaun White

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age. — P.T. Barnum

It's Laissez-Faire Until You Get In Deep Shit — Michael Lewis

Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love? — Rick Moody