Unreflective Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors. — L. Frank Baum

There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people. — Janine Di Giovanni

Oh, no, not likely. No one capable of tragedy could have married Mrs. Lanoline. — E. M. Forster

For modern fashion designers, bones are beautiful. I don't know why, but so many people are obsessed with the skeletal look. — Marie Helvin

To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money. — Megan Whalen Turner

A short story is simplification to the highest degree — Henry Seidel Canby

Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the useful and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the liberal mind. And it must always become more and more so: for though it is only of late, that it has been looked upon in that light, the great progress already made in Chymical knowledge, gives us a pleasant prospect of rich additions to it. The Science is now studied on solid and rational grounds. While our knowledge is imperfect, it is apt to run into error: but Experiment is the thread that will lead us out of the labyrinth. — Joseph Black

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything. — Peggy Noonan

Nature forms patterns. Some are orderly in space but disorderly in time, others orderly in time but disorderly in space. Some patterns are fractal, exhibiting structures self-similar in scale. Others give rise to steady states or oscillating ones. Pattern formation has become a branch of physics and of materials science, allowing scientists to model the aggregation of particles into clusters, the fractured spread of electrical discharges, and the growth of crystals in ice and metal alloys. The dynamics seem so basic - shapes changing in space and time - yet only now are the tools available to understand them. — James Gleick

It is our responsibility to look for meaning in life, even in the darkest times, and whatever the circumstances we always have a vestige of free will. — Viktor E. Frankl

Let the two cross-tops and junk gin and four no-filter Camels make your heart pound. — Amanda Boyden

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt. — Kristin Cashore

I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I'd get Frank Gehry, just to see what he'd do. — Hugh Hardy

It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people. — Katharine Hayhoe

Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone? — Nora Roberts