Seth Lloyd Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
-
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
-
We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
-
If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
-
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
-
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
-
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
-
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
-
The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
-
News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
-
Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
-
I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
-
Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
-
We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.
-
More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.
-
My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
-
Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality...and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.
-
It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.
-
Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body - and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands - that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.
-
It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.
-
It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
-
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
-
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
