Questions For Ada Quotes & Sayings

After I've gone out with a man a few times, he starts to tell me how much he loves me. But how can I know if he really means it? How can I ever be sure? — Doris Duke

At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis. — Ada Yonath

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat. — Terry Pratchett

There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them. — Joaquin Andujar

Happy Friday Night Fam! Time to free yourself from worries and stresses and focus on all of your blessings!! Spread LOVE & BE HAPPY this weekend! — Tracey Edmonds

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Add to the list anytime you think of something. Then when you sit down to write, you can just grab a topic from that list and begin. — Natalie Goldberg

Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success. — Ali Babacan

I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research. — Ada Yonath

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps. — Payne Stewart

If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess. — Douglas Lain

[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans. — Peggy Noonan

Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it. He should behave like those archers who, if they are skilful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Natural selection has been described as an environment selectively screening for those who will have progeny. Where humans are concerned, though, this is an extremely limiting viewpoint. Reproduction by sex tends toward experiment and innovation. It raises many questions, including the ancient one about whether environment is a selective agent after the variation occurs, or whether environment plays a pre-selective role in determining the variations which it screens. Dune did not really answer those questions: it merely raised new questions which Leto and the Sisterhood may attempt to answer over the next five hundred generations. - THE DUNE CATASTROPHE AFTER HARQ AL-ADA — Frank Herbert

Sometimes the worst insults are the ones that prey on our deepest fears. — Cambria Hebert

He is too young to have learned to hate himself yet, but that seed is already there; given time, it will grow, and bear bitter fruit. — Stephen King

That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: 'Use your eyes!' Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge. — Keith Coogan

Playtime was over. I grabbed her by the shoulders and threw her down on the bed. — Matt Abrams