Agnes Mary Clerke Quotes

Progress, then, is the law of the universe. From its present state we can obscurely argue a "has been" and a "shall be."

Agnes Mary Clerke

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• Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Water
  • Drink
  • Stay

• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parents

• When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Business
  • Change
  • Look

• If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Words

• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Never
  • Plant
  • Weed

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Most
  • Partnership

• There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Story
  • Should
  • Often

• People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Appreciate
  • Follow

• It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Control

• In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • House
  • You

• Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Body

• I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Life
  • Good
  • School

• For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Problem
  • Trade
  • Bank

• O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little. Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel.. .One must have only one master – nature; she is the one always be consulted.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • She
  • Nature

• Therefore, since the world has stillMuch good, but much less good than ill,And while the sun and moon endureLuck’s a chance, but trouble’s sureI’d face it as a wise man would,And train for ill and not for good.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • World
  • Good
  • Wise

• When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.

  

  Mike Posner
  • People
  • Music

• For me, personally, I didn't see many people like me on TV growing up.

  

  Pearl Mackie
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Life
  • Live
  • Heart

• I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?

  

  Cecil Castellucci
  • Wonder
  • Target

• A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress – though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Opinion
  • Progress

• Progress, then, is the law of the universe. From its present state we can obscurely argue a "has been" and a "shall be."

  

  Agnes Mary Clerke
  • Law
  • Universe
  • Progress