Hendryx Singer Quotes & Sayings

When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly ... he portrayed to me physics as a highly developed, almost fully matured science ... Possibly in one or another nook there would perhaps be a dust particle or a small bubble to be examined and classified, but the system as a whole stood there fairly secured, and theoretical physics approached visibly that degree of perfection which, for example, geometry has had already for centuries. — Max Planck

We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires. — William B. Irvine

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean. — Rumi

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt. — William Shakespeare

I don't want a man to validate me or take care of me. If I have a man in my life, I want him to enhance me. — Michelle M. Pillow

But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses. Each of us got our heart buried in six feet of African dirt; we are all co-conspirators here. I mean, all of us, not just my family. So what do you do now? You get to find your own way to dig out a heart and shake it off and hold it up to the light again. — Barbara Kingsolver

There are many roads that lead to hell, but only one way to go to heaven. — Steven J. Lawson

Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action. — Steve Maraboli