Kronig Quotes & Sayings

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs. — Jesse Jackson

What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet. — Tony Hoagland

So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the precise nature of this motion becomes a subject of rational curiosity. Daniel Bernoulli, Herapath, Joule, Kronig, Clausius, &c., have shewn that the relations between pressure, temperature and density in a perfect gas can be explained by supposing the particles move with uniform velocity in straight lines, striking against the sides of the containing vessel and thus producing pressure. — James Clerk Maxwell

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast. — Oscar Wilde

I'm usually so excited by the life I'm living I forget to take pictures. — Karen Marie Moning

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back. — Rachel Cusk

No matter how hard you dance, not everyone will clap — Joan Erikson

Here's my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy. — Alicia Keys

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread. — Victor Hugo

If Corporations are people, I guarantee you that a government of those people, by those people, and for those people will continue to exist. — Stephen Colbert

Major Karl von Kronig,"' he reads. '"Oberstleutnant Stefan Fenstermacher, Obergefreiter Lutz Gerber, Gefreiter Manfred Hahn, Gefreiter Reiner Brauer, Panzerfunker Gerhard Meister . . ." Bloody hell. No wonder they didn't win the war with names like that. Take them a year and a half to do the roll call. What the hell's "panzerfunker" when it's at home? — Elly Griffiths

Without love, life is a barren field. — Debasish Mridha

I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things. — Stephen Hawking

Grace releases people not only from sin but from shame. — Charles R. Swindoll