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Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships. (Stanislaw Ulam)
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself? View quote
Connie Willis
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Good things happen when you meet strangers. View quote
Yo-Yo Ma
One of the things I love about music is live performance. View quote
Yo-Yo Ma
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. View quote
Yo-Yo Ma
I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning. View quote
Yo-Yo Ma
I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix? View quote
Amy Tan
But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei. View quote
Amy Tan
Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic society, in which the leaders think and make decisions for everyone, we will become a country of intelligent, free and responsible people. (Dmitry Medvedev)
Whatever things a man gives up, By those he cannot suffer pain. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."- Madame Dorothea. View quote
Cassandra Clare
No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace. Girls killing things." "I like anyone killing things," He said equably, "Especially me. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting. View quote
Clarice Lispector
What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. View quote
Clarice Lispector
How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her? View quote
Clarice Lispector
And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying. View quote
Christina Rossetti
If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anybody bow down or stand up to Him. I have often a suspicion God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished. View quote
Rebecca West
I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end. (Julian of Norwich)
He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end. View quote
Julian of Norwich
Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things. View quote
Diana Wynne Jones
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day. View quote
Diana Wynne Jones
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled. View quote
Katherine Anne Porter