Istoric Vehicul Quotes & Sayings

For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy. — Sherry Turkle

If we're stuck on one world, we're limited to a single case; we don't know what else is possible. Then - like an art fancier familiar only with Fayoum tomb paintings, a dentist who knows only molars, a philosopher trained merely in NeoPlatonism, a linguist who has studied only Chinese, or a physicist whose knowledge of gravity is restricted to falling bodies on Earth - our perspective is foreshortened, our insights narrow, our predictive abilities circumscribed. By contrast, when we explore other worlds, what once seemed the only way a planet could be turns out to be somewhere in the middle range of a vast spectrum of possibilities. When we look at those other worlds, we begin to understand what happens when we have too much of one thing or too little of another. We learn how a planet can go wrong. — Carl Sagan

Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful. — M. Scott Peck

Guilt can teach us to become better; shame causes us to become bitter. EL — Evinda Lepins

No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets. — Sam Kean

These people had already seen what for everyone else is still unknown. I felt like I was recording the future. Svetlana — Svetlana Alexievich

When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least ... — Louisa May Alcott

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers. — Peter Morgan

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition. — Jon Krakauer

I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types. — Mark Helprin

Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones. — Augusten Burroughs