Umrisse Weltkarte Quotes & Sayings

If you could buckle your Bugs Bunny wristwatch to a ray of light, your watch would continue ticking but the hands wouldn't move. That's because at the speed of light there is no time. Time is relative to velocity. At high speeds, time is literally stretched. Since light is the ultimate in velocity, at light-speed time is stretched to its absolute and becomes static. Albert Einstein figured that one out. — Tom Robbins

Haven't you ever harbored the secret thought that somewhere Huck and Jim are - at this instant - poling their raft down some river just beyond our reach, so much more real are they than the shoe clerk who fitted us just a forgotten day ago? — Dan Simmons

Man, as a purely natural creature, fairly educated, but wholly unspiritualized, is a mental composition of: Hunger, Curiosity, Self-Esteem, Avarice, Cowardice, Lust, Cruelty, Personal Ambition; and on these vile qualities alone our 'society' hangs together; the virtues have no place anywhere, and do not count at all, save as conveniently pious metaphors. — Marie Corelli

I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out. — L.A. Meyer

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin ... by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin — John Wesley

What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about How To Be More Creative, that's for sure ... If startling insights could be systematically arrived at, they wouldn't be startling. The best you can do is to create a conducive environment: put in the hours; take time to daydream; avoid mind-corroding substances. — Oliver Burkeman

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry. — Plautus

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values. — David Rockefeller

This guy was absolutely, unequivocally, no-holds-barred in love with her. — S. Usher Evans

The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational. — Paul Gibbons

Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits. — Dan Mathews