Chemicals Quotes - Page 21

• We don't discuss this issue [ chemical weapons ] in public because we never said that we have it, and we never said that we don't have it. It's a Syrian issue ; it's a military issue we never discuss in public with anyone.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Military, Issues, Weapons

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Healthy foods are great, but it's important to keep your body active. Your muscles only get stronger and build more endurance for everyday things if you're moving and get the blood pumping. Exercising stimulates certain brain chemicals and can put you in a better mood!

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Moving, Exercise, Everyday Things

  "Jenna Answers Your Fitness Qs!". www.seventeen.com. March 23, 2012.

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• We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

  David Suzuki

  Scales, Planets, Globes

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• It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

  David Suzuki

  Earthquakes, Water, Might

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• While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.

  Robert Winston

  Religious, Personality, Feelings

  "Why do we believe in God?" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2005.

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• An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.

  Leon Panetta

  Extremist Groups, Gains, Passengers

  "Network Insecurity" by John Seabrook, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2013.

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• For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea. The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical. Coraline liked it enormously. She wished they had it at home. "How are your dear mother and father?" asked Miss Spink. "Missing," said Coraline. "I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'm on my own. I think I've probably become a single child family.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Children, Father

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.60, A&C Black

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• Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.

  Sarah Vowell

  Aztec, Office, Waiting

  "The Partly Cloudy Patriot". Book by Sarah Vowell, 2001.

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• As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Decision, Brain, Molecules

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.6, Penguin

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• What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Delusions Of Grandeur, Collections

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1087, Penguin

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• The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.

  Anais Nin

  Strong, Cooking, Black

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• If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?

  Sharon Shinn

  Makeup, Grieving, Grace

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• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.347, Library of America

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• [her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?

  Steve Martin

  Color, Essence, Mind

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique.

  Steven Brust

  Real, Moving, Artist

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• I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

  Arthur Smith

  Brain, Trying, Students

  "Culture" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2001.

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• I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the heebie-jeebies whenever he spoke - after being sure from the start that he was a Gremlin on the wing of America - I really like the paintings of George W. Bush.

  Jerry Saltz

  Wings, America, Saws

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• I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Brother

  "Exclusive Q&A: Saoirse Ronan on 'Hanna', "Hunger Games' & 'The Hobbit'". Interview with Kevin Polowy, www.mtv.com. June 4, 2011.

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• We're exposed and carry in our bodies multiple chemicals, and we have to understand how they interact. Both how they individually interact and the thousands of effects they can produce when they interact with the receptors that run our bodies.

  Daniel Goleman

  Running, Body, Produce

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• I accept that friends of ours have decided that the President's non-strike has somehow impacted perceptions of us. But I believe they are dead wrong and I think the critics are dead wrong, and here's why. The President [Barack Obama] made his decision to strike. He announced his decision to strike publicly. And the purpose of the strike was to get the chemical weapons out of Syria. That's the purpose.

  John F. Kerry

  Believe, Thinking, Decision

  "Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

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• Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.

  Daniel Goleman

  Water, Use, Earth

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• I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

  Carrie Fisher

  Imbalance, States, Leading Me

  "PrimeTime: Carrie Fisher Interview". "PrimeTime" with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. December 21, 2000.

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• Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Cells, Healthy

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Air, Cells

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons if they can get it.

  Dick Cheney

  People, Training, Nuclear

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2003.

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