Auguste Laurent Quotes
I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, andc., andc., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!
Auguste Laurent
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
Kate Winslet
I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had become a little loose. And I thought, 'And so it begins!'
Kate Christensen
When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.
R. Kelly
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
Manuel Puig
When Clint Eastwood walks into a room, you may not know his name. But you know who he is.
Mark Valley
Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.
Anthony Lewis
Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether
E. W. Bullinger
When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.
Elisha Gray
And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out and drank his blood! But, till then - if you don't believe me, you don't know me - til then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair on his head!
Emily Bronte
The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!
J. R. R. Tolkien
For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
People who have come from nothing and started their own business or opened up a whole new niche in a particular industry, they truly inspire me.
Benjamin Stone
Defensively, it was kind of frustrating. I have to compliment their quarterback. He did such a good job. What an excellent competitor.
Bob Stoops
No status right now. It's not something I said I'd even consider until after the TCU game. It's after the game and I haven't seen him. So, I'm assuming he's quit the team for good and until I know different, we'll see. I won't entertain anything until he shows he has a good reason or he can justify what his actions have been.
Bob Stoops
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Margaret Mead
Cutting corners no doubt makes the job easier for the government, but making the government's job easier is rarely a priority. Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is.
Wesley Pruden
Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.
Vaclav Havel
Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.
Felix Rohatyn
It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this energy to be released, however, the atom must be bombarded from without. So too, locked in every human being is a store of love that partakes of the divine-the imago dei-image of God, it is sometimes called. And it too can be activated only through bombardment, in its case love's bombardment.
Huston Smith
I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, andc., andc., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!
Auguste Laurent
