Undecipherable Hieroglyphics Quotes & Sayings

For reasons that are both obvious and highly functional, science textbooks (and too many of the older histories of science) refer only to that part of the work of past scientists that can easily be viewed as contributions to the statement and solution of the texts' paradigm problems. Partly by selection and partly by distortion, the scientists of early ages are implicitly represented as having worked upon the same set of fixed problems and in accordance with the same set of fixed canons that the most recent revolution in scientific theory and method has made seem scientific. — Thomas S. Kuhn

When Simone de Beauvoir said, "One is not born a woman - one becomes one," she didn't know the half of it. In — Caitlin Moran

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. — Lawrence G. Lovasik

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it. — David Cone

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future. — Mitt Romney

Literalness, however, is not the substance from which human culture is made. — Begona Aretxaga

Negatives only have power over you when you react to them — John Kehoe

In the hyper-sensitized reality of the region in which any criticism of Israel is swiftly and often unfairly branded as anti-Semitic, it can become counterproductive to inflame rather than explain and this means to hear the narratives of both sides, to articulate the suffering on both sides, not just the Palestinians. — Jane Fonda

Time passes quickly, Great King. If I don't use the strength and energy I now possess as a young man, old age will arrive too soon and I will feel deep regret. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Rather than adjust his expectations in the face of disappointment, he (Jefferson) tended to bury them deeper inside himself and regard the disjunction between his ideals and the worldly imperfections as the world's problems rather than his own. — Joseph J. Ellis

Boys can't be stewardesses, and girls can't be pilots. — Tim Dorsey

Who would fardels bear,
To groan and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus, conscience does make cowards of us all; — William Shakespeare