Imponderables Examples Quotes & Sayings

Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. — Thomas Huxley

We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction — Maria Montessori

Most Yancy field — Rick Riordan

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception. — Jaggi Vasudev

It takes a special kind of person to fight back. — Terry Pratchett

...he plundered the living treasure of those shelves. There was Burton's marvelous Anatomy, his staggering erudition never smelling of the dust or of the lamp...There was the dark tremendous music of Sir Thomas Browne, and Hooker's sounding and tremendous passion made great by genius and made true by faith. — Thomas Wolfe

There are forces in the world today, Mr. Winsocki, that are invisibly working to make us all carbon copies of one another. Forces that crush us into molds of each other. You walk down the street and never see anyone's face, really. You sit faceless in a movie, or hidden from sight in a dreary living room watching television. When you pay bills, or car fares or talk to people, they see the job they're doing, but never you. — Harlan Ellison

I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world. — Julia Butterfly Hill

The bee answered, "Give me a stinger so I can defend myself from humans." Zeus became sad because he loved humans. "I'll give you your sting to defend yourself if anyone tries to steal your honey," he replied, "but know this . . . if you hurt mankind with your stinger, you will die, for your sting is your life." From this legend, the ancient Greeks demonstrated that, when praying, one should never wish evil upon another. — Henry Durden

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either. — Tig Notaro

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me. — Khaled Hosseini

To know another's heart, you must first know your own. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels. — Sam Kean

Donald Trump can improve and get better as he goes along, and I think he will. — Jeff Sessions