John Cornforth Quotes
In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.John Cornforth
Quotes to Explore
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
Victoria Osteen -
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman -
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Zebulon Pike -
Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
Harold Prince -
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Baltasar Gracian -
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae West -
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Abba Eban -
Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
Vidya Balan -
I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
Daniel Bryan -
I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
Danica McKellar
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
Garrett Dillahunt -
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
Samuel Dash -
It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
Dalton Trumbo -
I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
Yael Grobglas -
A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
Yvonne Strahovski
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Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.
Jessica Szohr -
We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.
Miroslav Volf -
As we have learned from ObamaCare, young people are not considered adults until age 26, at which point they are finally forced to get off their parents' health care plans. The old motto was 'Old enough to fight, old enough to vote.' The new motto is: 'Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote.'
Ann Coulter -
Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.
Bobby Jindal -
As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis.
John Gurdon -
In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.
John Cornforth