Isomeric Forms Quotes & Sayings

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it. — Leni Zumas

Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not. — Madeleine Albright

I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for. — Elizabeth Lesser

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy. — Meister Eckhart

A thought can prompt. Words can stir. But it takes action to attain a dream. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price. — Hernan Cortes

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges. — Max Lucado

The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and see the real miserable children of America, right there on the sidewalk. — Jonathan Kozol

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things. — Lionel Hampton

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. — Tadao Ando

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet. — Neil Simon

They would sit together under the stars, recalling the ages that were gone and all their joys and labours in the world, or holding council, concerning the days to come. — J.R.R. Tolkien

[The] structural theory is of extreme simplicity. It assumes that the molecule is held together by links between one atom and the next: that every kind of atom can form a definite small number of such links: that these can be single, double or triple: that the groups may take up any position possible by rotation round the line of a single but not round that of a double link: finally that with all the elements of the first short period [of the periodic table], and with many others as well, the angles between the valencies are approximately those formed by joining the centre of a regular tetrahedron to its angular points. No assumption whatever is made as to the mechanism of the linkage. Through the whole development of organic chemistry this theory has always proved capable of providing a different structure for every different compound that can be isolated. Among the hundreds of thousands of known substances, there are never more isomeric forms than the theory permits. — Nevil Vincent Sidgwick