Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Camus

I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.

Amory Lovins

Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007-and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence.

Sidney Blumenthal

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.

Natalie Goldberg

Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of our lifeforce, and then we go on carrying that person in our body, not unlike springtime when certain plants in fields we walk through attach their seeds in the form of small burrs to our socks, our pants, our caps, as if to say, 'Go on, take us with you, carry us to root in another place.' This is how we survive long after we are dead. This is why it is important who we become, because we pass it on.

Lilith Saintcrow

His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath being tainted by the stench of dying cells. The smell of him seemed to coat my abused insides with peace, and flow down into the middle of my body to spread through my veins. I filled my lungs again. While I could, before what was undoubtedly a hallucination vanished.

Lil Wayne

From a cell to a jet call it Con-Air

Lil Wayne

I come straight from hell, Cell 23

Jostein Gaarder

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

Max Lucado

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

Max Lucado

Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives.

Max Lucado

When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you.

Maureen O'Hara

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

Matthew Henry

It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.

Matthew Henry

Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.

Matthew Henry

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

Matthew Henry

Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.

Matthew Henry

All this and heaven too.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Albert Einstein

What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.

Albert Einstein

Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

Alexander Herzen

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

Alexander McQueen

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!

Alexander Pope

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

Alex Haley

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.