Varolii Log Quotes & Sayings

The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1. — Ernest Rutherford

Almost all people answer that the opposite of "fragile" is "robust", "resilient", "solid", or something of the sort. But the resilient, robust (and company) items that neither break nor improve, so you would not need to write anything on them
have you ever seen a package with "robust" in thick green letters stamped on it? Logically, the exact opposite of a "fragile" parcel would be a package on which one has written "please mishandle" or "please handle carelessly". — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Charlie cursed in English as there are no really good Navajo curse words. — R. Allen Chappell

(for memory and clairvoyance, which are the same thing in two different directions). — Maggie Stiefvater

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs. — Katherine Applegate

Most rewarding of the ladders hang by slightest of the threads. Rope them threads. — Dharmendra Tolani

The grace of God has been tested in the crucible of human experience, and has been found to be more than an equal for the problems and sins of humanity. — Billy Graham

When someone steals your goat, my son, it is roasted and eaten and you forget it. When someone steals your corn, it is ground into meal and eaten and you forget it. But when someone steals your land, it is always there and you can never forget it. — Barbara Wood

The environment is everything that isn't me. — Albert Einstein

Love is the universal language of heart.
Feeling are the universal language of love.
Smile is the universal language of charm.
Attraction is the universal language of life. — Debasish Mridha

As for free will, there is such a narrow crack of it for man to move in, crushed as he is from birth by environment, heredity, time and event and local convention. If I had been born of Italian parents in one of the caves in the hills I would be a prostitute at the age of 12 or so because I had to live (why?) and that was the only way open. If I was born into a wealthy New York family with pseudo-cultural leanings, I would have had my coming-out party along with the rest of them, and be equipped with fur coats, social contacts, and a blase pout. How do I know? I don't; I can only guess. I wouldn't be I. But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of "I" that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratches on the paper ... I ... I ... I ... I ... I ... I. — Sylvia Plath

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. — Daniel Bernoulli

I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual — Lady G

Her voice was soft and flowing, and though he recognized it as Deep South, it seemed almost a foreign tongue after the coastal Maine cadence he'd grown used to. He wasn't a man to be pleased with having a magnolia blossom tossed on his doorstep. When she opened her eyes and smiled at him, Grant wished fervently he'd never opened the door. — Nora Roberts