Scholarship Acceptance Quotes & Sayings

His lips met mine and just like the stupid little fish that I was, I sank my teeth right into the hook. — Jettie Woodruff

String theory has had a long and wonderful history. It originated as a technique to try to understand the strong force. It was a calculational mechanism, a way of approaching a mathematical problem that was too difficult, and it was a promising way, but it was only a technique. It was a mathematical technique rather than a theory in itself. — Sheldon Lee Glashow

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. — Werner Heisenberg

And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you. — Ally Carter

Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd. — Salman Rushdie

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a collection of a million tiny little moments and choices, like a handful of luminous pearls. Strung together, lined up through the days and the years, they make a life. It takes so much time, and so much work, and those beads and moments are so small, and so much less fabulous and dramatic than the movies. The Heisman Trophy winner knows this. He knows that his big moment was not when they gave him the trophy. It was the thousand times he went to practice instead of going back to bed. It was the miles run on rainy days, the healthy meals when a burger sounded like heaven. That big moment represented and rested on a foundation of moments that had come before it. — Shauna Niequist

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work. — Thomas A. Edison

Free will is an illusion, my father answers and his words his words his words are so dark. — Courtney Cole

War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base. — C.E.M. Joad

As far as our relation to the physical world, I doubt there will be much more improvement. Our basic survival needs have been met, and much of our current progress is superfluous or downright troublesome. Most advancement is performed out of comfort rather than necessity. What we are lacking, what the world so desperately needs now, is adjustments of the mind. We need to see the world again with fresh eyes, and come to an understanding of who we are as individuals, and what drives us. — Chris Matakas

The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt. — Frederick Lenz

You could have told me, but you were loyal to them. But being in that room knowing that they were coming and arguing with Roxy showed me that you were loyal to me too. — Jessica N. Watkins

Human desires are the main cause of suffering — Siddhattha Gotama Buddha

It's ludicrous to think people work for you: 'a film by ... ' doesn't exist. Directed by, maybe, but it's a film from a collective, a group of people whom you consult and seek your counsel and advice and vice versa, too. — Xavier Dolan