Antoine Lavoisier Quotes

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

Antoine Lavoisier

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• I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Past
  • Person
  • New

• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • God
  • Home

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Pain
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Kids
  • Teacher
  • Involved

• You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Character
  • Learn
  • Human

• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Wrong

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Great
  • Important
  • Family

• My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Friends
  • Future
  • College

• I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Always

• Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Crazy
  • Media
  • Lights

• If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Scary
  • Honest
  • Really

• Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • May

• As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'

  

  Parker Palmer
  • God
  • Truth
  • American

• Back in the day, the album was king in many ways. And, of course, we were very tied in with the birth of FM/college radio in the States, and what we were doing suited the format of those young radio stations.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
  • College
  • King

• I was prepared to get knocked out myself trying to knock him out, because then I could sleep at night knowing that I've given my best.

  

  Carl Froch
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Sleep

• High heels are pleasure with pain.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • High
  • Pain

• What shall we say of the Intelligence that plans all this? Can the Creator be less than the creature? Shall we not say that Intelligence is indestructible, and its measure is its Power to adapt means to ends? Intelligence, Matter, Energy - nature's trinity in her manifestations.

  

  Elisha Gray
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Energy

• Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Nature

• I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Nature
  • Composition
  • Laboratory