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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 48b0878 | Much later, when I discussed the problem with | blunder cosmological-constant einstein greek physics problem science | George Gamow | |
| 721efde | I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. ... There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the ex.. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| d35dff3 | Once in Hawaii I was taken to see a Buddhist temple. In the temple a man said, "I am going to tell you something that you will never forget." And then he said, "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell." | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| e0991da | It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 6bb6f56 | the only thing that can be predicted is the probability of different events. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 4cf429f | There are two sides to any war-game, Your Highness, and the other side is trying to win, too. | David Weber | ||
| 3e1930f | Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to it knowingly, it was as cold as it was hot, as rational as it was lethal. To embrace the Rage was to embrace a splendor, a glory, a denial of all restraint but not of reason. It was pure, elemental purpose, unencumbered by compassion or horror o.. | bersek berserker bloodlust deadly frenzy glory horror lethal purpose rage rational restraint savage savagery unrestrained | David Weber | |
| 5a8b725 | This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins. | Elizabeth Moon | ||
| 728ee72 | Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses and moon daisies, Stella stood and listened, swaying a little as the flowers and trees were swaying, her spirit voice singing loudly, though her lips were still, and every pulse in her body beating its hammer strokes in time to the song. | inspirational literature | Elizabeth Goudge | |
| 4e62ebd | Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad." Anne: "You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we both have wonderful imaginations. We should be as happy as queens." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 3cc4a32 | Marilla!" Anne sat down on Marilla's gingham lap, took Marilla's lined face between her hands, and looked gravely and tenderly into Marilla's eyes. "I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me--back here--is just the same. It won't make a bit of difference where I go or how much I change outwardly; at heart I shall always be your little Anne, who will love you and Matthew and dear Green Gables .. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 612d05d | She loved Gilbert--had always loved him! She knew that now. She knew that she could no more cast him out of her life without agony than she could have cut off her right hand and cast it from her. And the knowledge had come too late--too late even for the bitter solace of being with him at the last. If she had not been so blind--so foolish--she would have had the right to go to him now. But he would never know that she loved him--he would go.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a57538d | She was as intense in her hatreds as in her loves. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2a199e2 | I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate," he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. "I saved his life, and when you've saved a creature's life you're bound to love it. It's next thing to giving life." | inspirational | L.M. Montgomery | |
| f4072b9 | I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business. | life | L.M. Montgomery | |
| c5f68f9 | you'll be spared an awful lot of trouble if you die young. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 85e55cf | Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since. | youth | L. M. Montgomery | |
| 8044c01 | Her beauty is the least of her dower-and she is the most beautiful woman I've ever known. That laugh of hers! I've angled all summer to evoke that laugh, just for the delight of hearing it. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 15223f4 | Well, that is another hope gone. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 3208a0b | Mrs. Spencer said that my tongue must be hung in the middle. But it isn't -- it's firmly fastened at one end. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 67a106f | Note: -- One can do a great deal with appropriate smiles. I must study the subject carefully. The friendly smile -- the scornful smile -- the detached smile -- the entreating smile -- the common or garden grin. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2211229 | Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so -- but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to. | heaven l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 3a617a7 | I feel sorry now myself," admitted Davy, "but the trouble is I never feel sorry for doing things till after I've did them." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| cec5769 | But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it? It was the old diamond disillusion of childhood repeated - the same disappointment she had felt when she had first seen the chill sparkle instead of the purple splendor she had anticipated. "That's not my idea of a diamond," she had said." -- | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| cf020d3 | Mrs. Rachel was one of those delightful and popular people who pride themselves on speaking their mind without fear or favor. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e841a2c | I came to the conclusion, Marilla, that I wasn't born for city life and that I was glad of it. It's nice to be eating ice cream at brilliant restaurants at eleven o'clock at night once in a while; but as a regular thing I'd rather be in east gable at eleven, sound asleep, but kind of knowing even in my sleep that the stars were shining outside and the wind was blowing in the firs across the brook. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| af7e385 | You're a brick! You're a whole cartload of bricks. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 57c113d | Strange, ain't it, how folks seem to resent anyone being born a mite cleverer than they be. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 470d7c5 | Next to a mother she wanted a quiet place where she could be alone when she wanted to be; to listen to the wind telling her strange tales, or hold the big spotted shell that murmured of the sea to her ear, or talk to the roses in the garden. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a98ad0a | If only she were a boy, speeding in khaki by Carol's side to the western front! She had wished that in a burst of romance when Jem had gone, without perhaps, meaning it. She meant it now. There were moments when waiting at home, in safety and comfort, seemed an unendurable thing. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 508f7bd | None of us ever do," said Mrs. Allan with a sigh. "But then, Anne, you know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 49eb355 | We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy. | inspirational | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 77ec89c | The day had begun sombrely in grey cloud and mist, but had ended in a pomp of scarlet and gold. Over the western hills beyond the harbour were amber deeps and crystalline shadows, with the fire of sunset below. The north was a mackerel sky of little, fiery golden clouds. The red light flamed on the white sails of a vessel gliding down the channel, bound to a Southern port in a land of palms. Beyond her, it smote upon and incarnadined the sh.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a5211f5 | to "hike" along a deep-rutted, pebbly lane in frail, silver-hued slippers with high French heels, is not an exhilirating experience." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| d25735d | The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't things be the same again - when everything is over and Jem and Jerry are back? We'll all be happy and jolly again and these days will seem just like a bad dream. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8656e7d | Anne had wandered down the the Dryard's Bubble and was curled up among the ferns at the root of the n=big white birch where sher and Gilbert had so often sat ion summers gone by. Hew had gone into the newspaper office again when college was closed, and Avonlea seemed very dull without him. He never wrote to her, and Anne missed the letters that neer came. To be sure, Roy wrote twice a week; his letters were exquisite compositions which woul.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| dc8422f | Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland. | old silly wise | L.M. Montgomery | |
| bf03b73 | Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he whispered shyly, "a little bit is a good thing - not too much, of course, but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it." | romance | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 65ba3af | How are you going to find out about things if you don't ask questions? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 74ccbb7 | We... Charlotta the Fourth and I... live in defiance of every known law of diet." ~ Miss Lavendar, chap 27" | humor l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| b4f0530 | But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply another name for a sense of fitness of things; | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| d24ecb2 | I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman. | satan | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 271b2a1 | Don't let them make anything of you but yourself, that's all. | self-identity | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 9e8d569 | There the rose of joy bloomed immortal by dale and stream; clouds never darkened the sunny sky; sweet bells never jangled out of tune; and kindred spirits abounded. | L.M. Montgomery |