Kondratyev F Le Quotes & Sayings

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. — Emile M. Cioran

Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it. — Tracy Thompson

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia. — Julie Taymor

Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and flowers are not always in season, but philosophy we have always with us. It is a crop which we can grow and reap at all times and in all places and it has its own value and brings its own satisfaction. — John Burroughs

Concrete meets face. Face loses. — Cherise Sinclair

Love's not my religion. I don't wait, I don't hope, and I don't believe. I'm free; I take. — Jaxy Mono

I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step into the sunlight when no one is taller than you and you're in no one's shadow. I know what I felt. Lonely. — John Mortimer

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel. — Kate Atkinson

Don't put beets in the soup, Reshi. They're foul. — Patrick Rothfuss

Understand that I will kill or die for you, Sydney. You are my everything and I have no plans on ever losing you. — Kitty Berry

Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking fact: when an aluminium foil is irradiated on a polonium preparation [alpha ray emitter], the emission of positrons does not cease immediately when the active preparation is removed: the foil remains radioactive and the emission of radiation decays exponentially as for an ordinary radio-element. We observed the same phenomenon with boron and magnesium. — Frederic Joliot-Curie

Be proud of what you do. But do something worth being proud of. — Steve Larson

He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Did I imagine all this? People are shooting at me! My job blew up, and I just watched myself exit my own room! This has been one day I will never forget! — D.W. Beam

Letty had barely touched her food. Javier stared down at her through a pair of aviator sunglasses. "You forgot something," she said. "What's that?" "My name. Who will they be expecting?" "Selena Kitt. S-E-L-E-N-A K-I-T-T. But you won't be carrying any identification. — Blake Crouch