Chet Raymo Quotes

Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.

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• People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • High
  • Always
  • Emotional

• We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Moments
  • Person
  • Where

• California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Effort
  • California

• The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Science
  • Small
  • Effort

• At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • History
  • Future
  • Black

• What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Moments
  • Performance

• The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren traditionary faith which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Faith

• In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Experience
  • Moments
  • Marriage

• I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated that I lose interest in the music. There has to be light and shade, and less stimulating moments. There has to be an arc to the show.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Music
  • Light
  • Moments

• Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

  

  Maximilien Robespierre
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• You know how it's almost impossible for kids to not say what they think? That's me. I have to make the conscious effort to be situationally appropriate.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Kids
  • Effort

• You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Good
  • Moments

• Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

  

  Frank Lampard
  • Moments
  • Fighting
  • Challenge

• A life without love is like a year without spring.

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Life
  • Love
  • Spring

• For every bad moment I've had, there have been 25 positives.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Bad
  • Moments
  • Has Beens

• Science reserves the highest reward for those of you who disprove our most cherished beliefs. At any moment someone from any walk of life could come forward and be responsible for a complete revision of our view of everything.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • Science
  • Moments

• I join all of you who are advocates telling others that they can improve their lives and the quality of their lives and others by taking a few moments, breathing, and allowing one's whole being to become a vessel for positivity.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Moments
  • Quality

• I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Music
  • Women
  • May

• There are a number of institutions globally where the Federal Reserve typically leads the U.S. effort to work with financial regulators from other countries, and we try to, to the extent possible, establish international standards for how - the amount of capital a bank should hold, for example, or how much.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Work
  • Effort
  • Financial

• I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Growing
  • Like
  • Glamour

• As for UFO's … I do believe there is a dimension that we don't understand. Not sure about little green martians, though.

  

  David Shuster
  • Believe
  • Green

• Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.

  

  Chet Raymo
  • Moments
  • Effort
  • Spring