Undular Quotes & Sayings

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean,
man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.
Man's life is independent.
He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self too. — B.R. Ambedkar

When she left me
I stood out in the thunderstorm,
hoping to be destroyed by lightning.
It missed, first left, then right. — Ted Kooser

Sorcha took the elevator down to the basement of the fashion house. She glanced at her stunningly beautiful reflection in the mirror and smiled to herself. How fortunate she was to be a vampire - no gray hairs, no wrinkles, no broken nails, no weight problems, and no PMT. What bliss! And how fortunate it was that all the legends about vampires were not true. She could not imagine an existence where she could not see and admire her own likeness - such a life to her would be intolerable and tedious. How could any female, even a vampire, survive without being able to see their own reflection? How could they do their hair and makeup? The very idea was totally preposterous. — Alan Kinross

Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular. — Werner Heisenberg

Friendship makes thieves of us all — Patti Smith

I'M ONLY AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE GUY THAT LIVES DOWN THE STREET FROM ME. — Jon Bon Jovi

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life. — Walter Annenberg

Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the inferences we feel naturally inclined to make are hardly ever valid. — Bertrand Russell

What is the conscience? It is the most highly developed part of the human being, the core of the spirit, the most sensitive, the most tender. — Pearl S. Buck

If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter one of human history
a long and uneventful chapter. Their chapter of human history ended about ten thousand years ago with the birth of agriculture in the Near East. This event marked the beginning of chapter two, the chapter of the Takers. It's true there are still Leavers living in the world, but these are anachronisms, fossils
people living in the past, people who just don't realize that their chapter of human history is over. ' — Daniel Quinn

When you achieve excellence,
expect some to oppose you.
When you achieve brilliance,
expect several to resent you.
When you achieve greatness,
expect many to envy you.
When you achieve transcendence,
expect plenty to hate you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The strongest and sweetest song remains to be sung — Walt Whitman

Halas didn't believe in starting rookies. — Gale Sayers

Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery. — Sara Genn

I suppose we all have our quirks." Her gaze travels over my outfit as she says "quirks." I'm in my usual hacker chic outfit I wear on jobs, lots of tight black everything, punk meets goth, short on class and full of sass. Because fuck you, that's why. — J.T. Geissinger