Surviving Calamity Quotes & Sayings

I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together. — Norah Jones

My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an instructor in chemistry under the distinguished chemists Roger Adams and Carl S. Marvel. — Elias James Corey

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world. — Joseph C Zinker

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling. — Anne Rice

As mechanistic biologists, we are hoping that by understanding how the virus works at the molecular level, we will be able to predict with more accuracy how it will evolve. — Jennifer Doudna

He was protecting me with just the tips of his fingers, like five miniature copies of his heart touching my skin. — Megan Duke

His position, like so many of his ilk, was one of uncontested and unearned respect. — John Boyne

Of course we lose them, everyone we try to hold on to, the fates disdain us, make us small, pathetic. When we cry for people we've lost, it's not out of sympathy, because of course we know that they're free from pain at last. But still we cry. We cry because we're alone again. We cry out of self-pity. — Jo Nesbo

Each time that we respond unmercifully, our malevolence reveals our lack of faith. If we believe that Jesus will set all things right in the end from his great white throne of judgment then we can be merciful and respond with mercy. — Jason Farley

Battle not with monsters, for then you become one. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun. — Swami Vivekananda

The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist. — Ambrose Bierce