Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?[Albert Einstein] Quote:If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.[Homer Simpson] Quote:Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude, but their attitude, that will determine their altitude.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.[Dave Barry] Quote:America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.[Confucius] Quote:I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:War does not determine who is right - only who is left.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th's] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.[Tim Blair] Quote:Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.[Earl Nightingale] Quote:I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Every positive value has its price in negative terms. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.[Margaret Mead] Quote:It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.[Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.[Plato] Quote:The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.[Plato] Quote:One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. [Georg Christoph Lichtenberg] Quote:Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. [Chester Bowles] Quote:He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. [Robertson Davies] Quote:I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. [Charles Lamb] Quote:It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. [Juvenal] Quote:I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing. [Aristotle] Quote:I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. [William James] Quote:I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. [Carl Sagan] Definitions of: termDefinition: That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.Definition: The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life. Definition: In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms. Definition: A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid. Definition: A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration Definition: The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years. Definition: A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation. Definition: The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes. Definition: The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. Definition: A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term. Definition: A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3. Definition: A member of a compound quantity; as, a or b in a + b; ab or cd in ab - cd. Definition: The menses. Definition: Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions. Definition: In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents. Definition: A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. |
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