Havens Quotes - Page 18

• I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Curiosity, Trying, Strange

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Depth, Fathom

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Anthony Mario Ludovici (2004). “Ecce Homo”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time.

  Graham Coxon

  Nice, Talking, Long

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• If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

  John Thorn

  Games, Ties, Events

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• ...... an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts.....a camp for semi-demented adults.... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix - it always seems to rise again from the ashes.

  Sara Davidson

  Struggle, Artist, Venice

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• I don't want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I'll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it's possible to be. I'm growing and I don't know how to grow. I'm living but I haven't started living yet.

  David Almond

  Crazy, Healing, Moon

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• I love you, Susie.She rolled her eyes. Save it.I haven't given you much reason to believe it, but it's true. I love you. I've loved you for so long I can't imagine ever not loving you. When I saw you struggling to breathe yesterday, I was reminded again that a life without you is no life at all. So you don't have to be civil.You don't even have to talk to me, but I'm going to talk to you. I hope you'll listen.

  Marie Force

  Believe, Struggle, Love You

  Marie Force (2013). “Marie Force Bundle: Line of Scrimmage, Love at First Flight, Everyone Loves a Hero”, p.42, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

  Dennis Potter

  Regret, Single Mom, Dying

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• Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.

  Isaac Asimov

  Love, Thinking, People

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• Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven't had time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we believe that we have them.

  Simon Barnes

  Couple, Believe, Years

  Simon Barnes (2008). “How to be Wild”, p.39, Short Books

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• And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get to help make the people in their families who haven't been born yet. They pick out what kinds of traits they want the new people to have - they give them all the raw material of their souls, like their talents and their brains and their potential. Of course it's up to the new ones, once they're born, what they'll use and what they won't but that's what everyone who dies is doing, I think.

  Dara Horn

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't. You get the feeling that the result you have discovered is forever, because it's concrete. Other branches of mathematics are not so clear-cut. Functional analysis of infinite-dimensional spaces is never fully convincing; you don't get a feeling of having done an honest day's work. Don't get the wrong idea - combinatorics is not just putting balls into boxes. Counting finite sets can be a highbrow undertaking, with sophisticated techniques.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Cutting, Math, Ideas

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• It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You study it, perhaps for years, you get the feel of it and it is in your bones. You can't convey that to anyone else. Having studied the problem for five years you may be able to present it in such a way that it would take somebody else less time to get to that point than it took you. But if they haven't struggled with the problem and seen all the pitfalls, then they haven't really understood it.

  Michael Atiyah

  Math, Years, Long

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• When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill and sing, and Joy is king of everything, when Cynthia smiles. He coughed, changing gears. When Cynthia frowns - What the devil are you talking about?I'm reading you my poem. The one I wrote to Cynthia last night. I'll go on, shall I?No!No?No. I haven't had my tea.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Kings, Reading, Night

  P. G. Wodehouse (1991). “The great sermon handicap”, James H. Heineman

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• I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write. So hard to finish, so hard to find the exact word to make it shine. In honor of my youth I will write a poem to finish this essay. It is spring in the Ozark Mountains. The yellow flowers are blooming and the birds wake me at dawn and last night five planets lined up by the moon in the western sky. If that doesn't inspire me to poetry what will?

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Spring, Flower, Writing

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• I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Writing, Mail

  Groucho Marx (2007). “The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found that when doctors genuinely encouraged women to have VBACs, most of them did, and when they said nothing or acted neutral, most women didn't. Finally, when obstetricians discouraged VBAC in women who wanted to try it, none of them did.

  Henci Goer

  Believe, Doctors, Trying

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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• Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our medical institutions haven't figured out how this family policy is going to work. Men are tired of the 80- to 100-hour work week as well.

  Vicki Donlan

  Tired, Men, Law

  Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

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• How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Procrastination, Commitment, Self

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• You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

  Byron Katie

  Realizing, Can't Change, Happens

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2013

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• I haven't decided when I'll get married.

  Ranbir Kapoor

  Married, Decided

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• I love my fans and have devoted my life to reaching out to them. I appreciate their support all these years, and I hope I haven't let them down. I am at peace. I love Jesus. I'm going to be just fine. Don't worry about me. I'll see you again one day.

  Ray Price

  Jesus, Years, Appreciate

  "Country music pioneer Ray Price dies", www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2013.

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• I haven't done a lot in London. I think comedy over there is how it was over here years ago. There's tons of it, and they're better paid.

  Todd Barry

  Thinking, Years, Done

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• People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

  David Fincher

  People, Radical, Call Me

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• There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Thinking, Safe Haven

  "Steven Spielberg Interview HBO’s THE PACIFIC". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. February 4, 2010.

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