Ratledge Chemistry Quotes & Sayings

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box. — Edie Brickell

We naturally believe we are more capable of reaching the centre of things than of embracing their circumference, and the visible extent of the world is visibly greater than we. But since we in our turn are greater than small things, we think we are more capable of mastering them, and yet it takes no less capacity to reach nothingness than the whole. In either case it takes an infinite capacity, and it seems to me that anyone who had understood the ultimate principles of things might also succeed in knowing infinity. One depends on the other, and one leads to the other. These extremes touch and join by going in opposite directions, and they meet in God and God alone. — Blaise Pascal

[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it. — Gloria Estefan

Don't fucking swear," Ronan said. — Maggie Stiefvater

I'm as old as both of you," she said, even though she suspected she
wasn't, "and I'm smarter, and I can probably fight as well as you can. — Kristin Cashore

A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997. — Andy Hertzfeld

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past. — J. Frank Dobie

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight. — Jonathan Winters

I think just having a gift and being able to do something creative and having people like it and enjoy it ... I'm in a really, really cool place here. A lot of people try to do this and might get a little bit of success, but we've been lucky. We're going to take that and try and go as far as we can with it and just do the best that we can. — Mitch Lucker

I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought. — J.R.R. Tolkien

When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Well, it's not the amount of money you spend, but how you decide to spend it that matters. "Every day spending choices unleash a cascade of biological and emotional effects that are detectable right down to saliva," reports Harvard's Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton in their brilliant 2013 book, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending. — Anthony Robbins

Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to "humbleness." But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots. — Nancy Pearcey