Ahmed Zewail Quotes

It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them; the fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations, and this speed is about a kilometre per second.

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• When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • Want
  • Garden

• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Career
  • Me

• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Money
  • Think
  • Debt

• By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Thought

• It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Remember
  • Easy
  • Cooking

• In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour with our guests.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Together
  • Team
  • Question

• I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Think

• Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Power
  • Career
  • Knowledge

• Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Wish
  • Care
  • Better

• And that's the way it is. ...reads date. This is Walter Cronkite, CBS News; good night.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Night

• Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Family
  • Soul
  • Feeling

• The first woman minister, Antoinette Brown, had to meet ridicule and opposition that can hardly be conceived to-day. Now there are women ministers, east and west, all over the country.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Women
  • Country

• The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: 'All a blowing and a growing.' It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Small
  • Growing
  • Crying

• A people under the menace of war and of invasion is very easy to govern. It does not claim social reforms, it does not cavil over armaments or military equipment. It pays without haggling, it ruins itself at it, and that is excellent for the syndicates, the financiers, and the heads of industry to whom patriotic terrors open an abundant source of gain.

  

  Anatole France
  • People
  • War
  • Military

• I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.

  

  Bob Graham
  • War

• I'd sit on the coffee table and lip sync to 'Blue Christmas,' 'I Can't Help Falling in Love,' 'Love Me Tender,' 'Don't Be Cruel' - some of the big hits like that.

  

  Drake Milligan
  • Help
  • Blue
  • Christmas

• Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

  

  Freeman Dyson

• God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, ... are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Justice
  • Heaven

• From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• Now there's no *beeping* way in hell I'm gonna go over because I'm a little afraid of animals.

  

  Benjamin Kowalewicz Billy Talent
  • Hell
  • Animals

• A Grave - is a restricted Breadth -Yet ampler than the Sun -And all the Seas He populatesAnd lands he looks uponTo Him who on its small ReposeBestows a single Friend -Circumference without Relief -Or Estimate - or End

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Small
  • Single
  • Friend

• I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

  

  Jonathan Winters
  • Picture

• It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them; the fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations, and this speed is about a kilometre per second.

  

  Ahmed Zewail