Tsien Lab Quotes & Sayings

And here's something else I learned: you lose some people that way - fast and blinding. But some people inch away from you slowly, in barely discernible steps. In the end it almost doesn't matter. They're just as gone. — Lauren Fox

No matter how old you are, as long as a parent is alive, you are still a child. It is only after both die that you cease being a child. And then, all of a sudden, not only are you no longer a child, you are also next in line. — Dennis Prager

So am I dead? How many kinds of living and dead and living dead and dead living had I been in just these few months, these few days, after the stasis of plain old human living and dying? I deserved some kind of existential medal. — Joan Frances Turner

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of. — Dennis Prager

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. — Peter Ustinov

You never know what motivates you. — Cicely Tyson

How could a merchant lead people? Did not merchants have to focus on their wares? It was ridiculous. — Robert Jordan

When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of the ruby and the rose. — Nathalia Crane

Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings. — Barbara Holland

Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you. — Catherine Ponder

I don't think I have the right to give someone advice when I don't know them. — Leona Lewis

I guess you've grown up anyway, Janie. Even with all the bricks I put on your head to keep you little. — Caroline B. Cooney

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. — Camille Paglia