Sir James Dewar Quotes & Sayings

Inbetween yesterday's regret and tomorrow's dream is today's opportunity. Seize the chance! — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

You can only hold your stomach in for so many years. — Burt Reynolds

Listen to your heart beating, follow the thoughts you can't control, control your desire to get up at once and to do something "useful". Sit for a few minutes each day, doing nothing, getting as much as you can out of that time.

'When you're washing up, pray. Be thankful that there are plates to be washed; that means there was food, that you fed someone, that you've lavished care on one or more people, that you cooked and laid the table. Imagine the millions of people at this moment who have absolutely nothing to wash up and no one for whom to lay the table. — Paulo Coelho

Dewar's rule in his laboratory was as absolute as that of a Pharaoh, and he showed deference to no one except the ghost of Faraday whom he met occasionally all night in the gallery behind the lecture room. — Kurt Mendelssohn

On the very outside chance that we might play again, you should know that pool is the closest thing I have to a religion. Don't ever throw a game with me again. — Jennifer Crusie

I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are and choose to be a member of a privileged and dominant class, one of your privileges being not to notice. — Marilyn Frye

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it. — Constantin Stanislavski

Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language. — Ron Paul

GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal. — Linda Kaplan Thaler

comment. "Are you sure you've got the — John Sandford

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work. — Kenneth W. Harl

It is often too late by the time the government reacts. — Vandana Shiva

If I could afford to live in London I would. — Minnie Driver

Barack Obama's daughters are very smart. They told him they will take the same responsibility for the dog that he is taking for the economy. That way, if the dog leaves a mess in the White House, it'll be cleaned up by future generations. — Jay Leno