Harold Urey Quotes

Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.

Harold Urey

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• How can we help President Obama?

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Help
  • President
  • How

• I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Good
  • Taken

• Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Long
  • Everything
  • Responsible

• Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Evil

• Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Ignorance
  • Planet
  • Damage

• I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Effort

• The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Rest

• The public library is where I studied. It’s where my grandfather taught himself English.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • English
  • Library
  • Grandfather

• He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Advantage
  • Injuries
  • Remedies

• How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Men
  • Long
  • Heaven

• Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Bachelors

• I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Happiness
  • Married
  • Misery

• My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Good Friend

• Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that more is better. This is very materialistic, we have to realize that it is the quality of life, quality of relationships, quality of food, medicine, education and everything else which matters.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Believe
  • Quality
  • Realizing

• He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Truth
  • Socrates
  • Athens

• Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.

  

  William Styron
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Joy

• In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator.

  

  Arthur Rothstein
  • Direction
  • Photographer
  • Processes

• Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Materialistic
  • Temples
  • Athens