Albertus Magnus Quotes

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

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• The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Italian
  • Combination
  • Potatoes

• My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Long
  • Live
  • Money

• Incommensurables cannot be compared.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Cannot
  • Compared

• While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Children
  • Trying

• For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Will

• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Trees

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• It's no use crying over spilt summits.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Use
  • Crying
  • Over

• People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Chance
  • Lucky

• Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Evil
  • Lies

• I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kids
  • Singing
  • Annoying

• I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Human
  • Being
  • Human being

• Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Home
  • America
  • Philosophical

• ''A woman's wisdom is her gift to women,'' Peggy quoted. ''Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to God.''

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Done
  • Past
  • Lost

• The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Water

• At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty chides his infamous delay,Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;In all the magnanimity of thoughtResolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.

  

  Edward Young
  • Purpose
  • Fool

• The whole subject-matter of exact science consists of pointer readings and similar indications.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Science

• About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Long

• Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

  

  Ari Fleischer

• Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Music
  • Song

• I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

  

  Linda Sue Park
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Remember

• Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Done

• Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

  

  Albertus Magnus
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