Orfandad Vals Quotes & Sayings

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress. — Charles Sumner

Social media is just that - social. — John Patrick Hickey

The biggest anxiety is just about America's role in the world. People are feeling very unsafe. They really are. They're just wondering whether, anything can be done to try to stabilize the world a little bit. — Chris Christie

Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support life - the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, and lipids - is by means of photosynthesis. Using sunlight as a catalyst the green cells of plants combine carbon atoms taken from the air with water and elements drawn from the soil to form the simple organic compounds that stand at the base of every food chain. It is more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air. — Michael Pollan

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard. — E.W. Howe

Ketterdam is made of monsters. I just happen to have the longest teeth. — Leigh Bardugo

Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats.
Mariano the Third built bigger boats.
And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world. — Ally Carter

You missed your place as a knight-errant three hundred years ago. Always defend a lady, always stand by a friend, and never betray your lord. — Django Wexler

There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky. — Dejan Stojanovic

Neuroscientists have found that the prospect of making money stimulates the same primitive reward circuits in the brain that cocaine does. — Atul Gawande