Isador Quotes & Sayings

I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lip.
I ran — Khaled Hosseini

Instead of shaking it, Armand slowly brought her hand to his lips and kissed the backs of her knuckles. Gwen's breath hitched and her eyes widened. Jacque wanted to smash his fist into his cousin's pearly whites. The bastard was purposely taunting both him and Louis by turning on the charm. Women loved Armand. Young and old, pretty or plain, it didn't matter. He — N.J. Walters

The end of the world might be near, Isador said to her once, but we don't have to rush to reach it. — Aleksandar Hemon

People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival! — Leslie Feinberg

I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules. — Alfred Werner

I have no intention of disowning my record as a member of the McGuinty government. — Kathleen Wynne

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in the 1930s, attributed his success to the way his mother used to greet him when he came home from school each day. "Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?" she would say. — Richard Saul Wurman

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy. — Sam Neill

During the first and primitive stages of the history of our species there was a general centrifugal movement of peoples into distance, to all sides, with the various populations becoming increasingly separated, each developing its own applications and associated interpretations of the shared universal motifs; whereas, since we are all now being brought together again in this mighty present period of world transport and communication, those differences are fading. The old differences separating one system from another now are becoming less and less important, less and less easy to define. And what, on the contrary, is becoming more and more important is that we should learn to see through all the differences to the common themes that have been there all the while, that came into being with the first emergence of ancestral man from the animal levels of existence, and are with us still. — Joseph Campbell

Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across the word 'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection with political discussions ... For the Jew was still characterized for me by nothing but his religion, and therefore, on grounds of human tolerance, I maintained my rejection of religious attacks in this case as in others. Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation. — Adolf Hitler

Designers send me clothes I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing. — Norah Jones

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! — John Milton

A split second. An eternity. Into the breach. Across the brink. A micron wide. Deep as forever. Of all our infinite possibilities, these are but two. — Jay Kristoff

If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth living. — Aleksandar Hemon

Hi," I return, gesturing to the fish. "Nice catch."
"Yeah. I'm kind of impressed with myself. I always thought redheads were sexy."
"Ha-ha. I meant the fish."
"Ah. Yes. — Sophie Jordan

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole. — Mark Twain