Silvijev Quotes & Sayings

For reasons that are both obvious and highly functional, science textbooks (and too many of the older histories of science) refer only to that part of the work of past scientists that can easily be viewed as contributions to the statement and solution of the texts' paradigm problems. Partly by selection and partly by distortion, the scientists of early ages are implicitly represented as having worked upon the same set of fixed problems and in accordance with the same set of fixed canons that the most recent revolution in scientific theory and method has made seem scientific. — Thomas S. Kuhn

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family. — Eric Ripert

I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation in the family, but because I was so close to my parents in age, they treated me with a kind of adult respect. They talked to me as an equal. — Nile Rodgers

In the past, I was working out too heavy. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

Mine the long night
The secret place
Where lovers meet
In long embrace
In purple dark
In silvered kiss
Forget the world
And grasp your bliss — A.S. Byatt

No matter how our hearts break, we bend toward life, don't we? We bend toward hope. — Anonymous

I was a child who loved books, and I am an adult who is the product of books. — John Connolly

A well put together unreality is pretty hard to beat. — Mark Twain

Man is now a horror to God and himself and a creature ill-adapted to the universe not because God made him so but because he has made himself so by the abuse of his free will. — C.S. Lewis

Here it is
right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it. — Huang Po

Failure is not a permanent condition. — Angela Duckworth

I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it. — Gil Scott-Heron

Fate is for losers. — Douglas Coupland

Of course you cannot know a man completely,
his character, his principles, sense of judgment,
not till he's shown his colors, ruling the people,
making laws. Experience, there's the test. — Sophocles