Mosteks Quotes & Sayings

The truth is what we say it is ... prove to me this desk is not a cow! — Ray S. Jones

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

We change the earth and our changes may only be temporary; yet the signs of what we have done may persist, as these mounds did. — Alexander McCall Smith

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face. — Rick Yancey

Meanwhile, the Mosteks spent a frantic hour trying to comprehend the dire nature of Rece's situation. Then Dr. Sammut entered the waiting room and gave the worried parents a thumbs-up. Inside a plastic vial was the unbelievable item that had nearly taken Rece's life: a popcorn kernel that had been lodged in his left lung. Rece's condition was the result of a perfect storm. Months earlier, he had inhaled a kernel of popcorn, which became lodged in his right lung. This led to infections and breathing problems, including pneumonia. But his excessive coughing earlier that day had thrust the kernel from the right lung and propelled it into his left lung, where it unluckily blocked his airway. — Anonymous

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. — George Santayana

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't. — Robert Holden