Solfataras Quotes & Sayings

When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough. — Jay Nichols

Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be in charge, take control of your life — Lailah Gifty Akita

I trust you," she says.
"That doesn't mean I won't hurt you."
Penny shrugs. "Pain is temporary."
"That doesn't mean I won't damage you. — Rainbow Rowell

I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia! — Karl Popper

If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith. — Henry Louis Gates

You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power. — Carlos Castaneda

The thing about cancer is that it can always exceed your worst expectations. There is something pornographic about cancer's ability to confound your imagination. Whatever new obscenity cancer comes up with to torment and torture you, it can always do worse tomorrow. — Tony Parsons

I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music. — Burning Spear

It looked like a bird - in the same way that a wolf looked like a lapdog. — Brandon Sanderson

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity. — Michel De Montaigne

What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet. — David Attenborough

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss. — Ellen Page