Jefferson Contradictory Quotes & Sayings

Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat. — Benjamin Franklin

Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but refuse. They cling to the realm, or love, or the gods ... illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is. But they'll never know this. Not until it's too late. — George R R Martin

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person. — Steve Carell

I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.' — Elizabeth Strout

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough. — E.W. Howe

Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it. — Maddie Ziegler

People are the most fascinating mysteries I've ever read. — Tori Amos

People all over this country are shouting at each other. And what we need to do is bring people together to work on the agreement where there is broad consensus and that's what I intend to do. — Bernie Sanders

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them. — Abigail Breslin

Art will not disappear into nothingness; it will disappear into everything — Julio Garcia Espinosa

The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids to enable such subtle bodies [air, light, &c.] to make a well-defined impression on organs as blunt as ours; that it is laudable to encourage investigation but to hold back conclusion. — Thomas Jefferson

Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system. — Thomas Jefferson