Lluvioso En Quotes & Sayings

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved. — Tim Minchin

This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader. — Alberto Manguel

He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in living amongst people, and in passing the time that way not unpleasantly. Major Palgrave might have been a lonely man, he had also been quite a cheerful one. — Agatha Christie

There is one thing worse than making a thing wrong: doing badly a right thing. — Luigina Sgarro

We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark, we can't understand light. Without hardship, we wouldn't *experience* ease. Without the existence of deprivation and loss, we couldn't grasp the need for gratitude or the virtue of patience. And without separation, we wouldn't taste the sweetness of reunion. Glory be to the one who gives - even when He takes. — Yasmin Mogahed

Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again. — The Weeknd

I'm a worry-wart, I'd say. — Gillian Jacobs

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me. — Shirley Maclaine

No amphibian succeeded in adapting to salt water. — Ernst W. Mayr

The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile.
[The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.] — George Herbert

I am for fetishisation! All of us have our favourite things, and they speak to us. — Tino Sehgal

Success is a worn down pencil. — Robert Rauschenberg

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life. — Philip Sidney

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick. — Benjamin Disraeli