Nessim Algranati Quotes & Sayings

Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements. — William Henry Bragg

With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of the book as he was at the beginning. It is not only that his characters have developed
he has developed with them, and this nearly always gives a sense of roughness to the work: a novel can seldom have the sense of perfection which you find in Chekhov's story, The Lady with the Dog. — Graham Greene

Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Quite without thought, he glanced at his left hand, and saw the ghost of the scar at the base of his thumb, the "C" so faded that it was scarcely visible. He had not noticed it or thought of it in years, and felt suddenly as though there was not air enough to breathe. — Diana Gabaldon

If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Part of the effort to divide black people was to make sure we were separated not just physically but by language as well. In the Bantu schools, children were only taught in their home language. Zulu kids learned in Zulu. Tswana kids learned in Tswana. Because of this, we'd fall into the trap the government had set for us and fight among ourselves, believing that we were different. The — Trevor Noah

Knowing what you don't want is the same thing as knowing nothing. — Marty Rubin

Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property
thus excluding others from the freedom they gain
the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity. — Peter Singer

A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration — Sylvia Plath