Isaac Newtons Quotes & Sayings

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty. — William Shakespeare

The more you doubt your talent and strive to improve, the better the writer. — Stephanie Ayers

People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born.
And I am turning into a vampire. — M T Anderson

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us. — S.I. Hayakawa

When somebody walks into a room they give off a certain kind of vibe or whatever and at that point that's how you're going to cast them. — Famke Janssen

Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks the humanity I know into two distinct parts; that this duality is a fundamental, and that all differences among you gentiles are trivialities compared with that which divided all of you from us. — Maurice Samuel

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life. — Erik Hersman

It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. — Albert Schweitzer

My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development. — James Prescott Joule

If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb. — Aldous Huxley

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It would be easier if people were just good or bad and that was that.
pg. 313 — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Women are indoctrinated from infancy about beauty. We feel we must be Superwoman and have it all: beauty, brains, a good work ethic, great with children, a good cook. The list is long, isn't it? I think it's particularly hard for women to accept the unconditional love God offers. We are so used to being held to such a high standard - and failing - that we feel we can never measure up. What a blessing when we realize that we don't have to. God loves us, warts and all. We are safe in his arms. Safe to tell him our dreams, our fears, our failings. Safe to relax in his unconditional love. — Colleen Coble

Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical novel to go in with the expectation that this is going to deliver the same kind of reading experience. I think what's contemporary about my book has something to do with how condensed things are. — Danielle Dutton