Gerolamo Cardano Quotes

Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.

Gerolamo Cardano

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• In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Great
  • Strong
  • Present

• It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Fear
  • Diversity
  • Destroy

• I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Smell
  • Grass
  • Summers

• When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • People
  • Tears
  • Smell

• There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That's where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Boxing

• To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Government
  • Down

• Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Future
  • Friendship
  • Option

• Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Invisible
  • Smell

• A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Police
  • Destroy

• I don't wear a lot of perfumey-perfumes because I think a lot of them smell like you're wearing perfume. And I don't want to smell like that.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Think
  • Want
  • Smell

• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Like
  • Take
  • Smell

• The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Destroy
  • Aim
  • Israel

• They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Society
  • Way
  • Destroy

• My mum used Avon Skin So Soft oil when I was younger. She would have a bath, and then the smell used to fill the whole house.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • She
  • House
  • Skin

• Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Never
  • Destroy
  • Early

• Be silent always when you doubt your Sense.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Doubt
  • Silence
  • Senses

• The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mean
  • Joy
  • Flower

• There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Threat
  • Honestly
  • Pact

• So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • English
  • Language
  • Novels

• Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Successful
  • Key
  • Apple

• The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • True

• Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.

  

  Gerolamo Cardano
  • Destroy
  • Smell
  • Senses