Provocare Significato Quotes & Sayings

Flexibility is a requirement for survival. — Roger Von Oech

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. — Epicurus

Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself. — Rick Pitino

The cross, then, is an expression of God's wrath toward sin as well as His love to us. It expresses His holiness in His determination to punish sin, even at the cost of His Son. And it expresses His love in sending His Son to bear the punishment we so justly deserved.
So in answer to the question, "Why the cross?" we must say God's holiness demanded it as punishment for our sins, and God's love provided it to save us from our sins. — Jerry Bridges

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself. — Chris Daughtry

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. ' — Lev Grossman

Now, Ron, the Sorting's much more important than food," said Nearly Headless Nick as "Madley, Laura!" became a Hufflepuff. " 'Course it is, if you're dead," snapped Ron. — J.K. Rowling

And what he was truly all about. Thirteen years old. I was still slightly stunned by that. Could a thirteen-year-old — James Patterson

The problem of the origin of the laws of physics is an acute one for physicists. Einstein's suggestion that they may turn out necessarily to possess the form that they do has little support. It is sometimes said that a truly unified theory of physics might be so tightly constrained logically that its mathematical formulation is unique. But this claim is readily refuted. It is easy to construct artificial universe models, albeit impoverished ones bearing only a superficial resemblance to the real thing, which are nevertheless mathematically and logically self-consistent. — Paul Davies

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. — Adlai E. Stevenson

If wars still exist, it's because we don't love peace enough. — Marty Rubin

We are who we make ourselves to be — Jeaniene Frost

Build pockets of stillness into your life. — Maria Popova

There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter. — Aristotle.