Humphry Davy Quotes
Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.Humphry Davy
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
Mandy Patinkin -
First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
Nadia Giosia -
Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.
Stevie Wonder -
When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest.
Charles Tennyson Turner
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Deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon -
I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.
George Foreman -
I think (West Virginia) played with a great deal of heart and determination. They were small, but they fought hard. I don't know if we overlooked them, but there is no point complaining about it. We deserved to lose.
C. Vivian Stringer -
But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.
Vladimir Nabokov -
The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
Blaise Pascal -
i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.
William Goldman
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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
George Bernard Shaw -
For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
Michael Faraday -
I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
Marilyn Monroe