Inspirational Quotes - Page 382

I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.

Never take life too seriously, you're never getting out of it alive.

What I remember most clearly is how it felt. I’d just finished painting a red fire engine-like the one I often walked past near my grandparents’ house. Suddenly the teachers, whose names I've long forgotten, closed in on my desk. They seemed unusually impressed, and my still dripping fire engine was immediately and ceremoniously pinned up. I don’t know what they might have said, but their unexpected attention and having something I’d made given a place of honor on the wall created an overwhelming and totally unfamiliar sense of pride inside me. I loved that feeling, and I wanted to feel it again and again. That desire, I suppose, was the beginning of my career. tI have no idea where my fire engine painting ended up, but I never forgot the basic layout. Several decades later, it served as the inspiration for this sketch for an illustration in a book called Why the chicken crossed the Road.

David Macaulay

Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel."I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him."Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?

Laurie R. King

If everyone listened to me, the world would be a better place.

Aviva Moore

I know it’s technically goodwill to all men, but in my mind, I drop the men because that feels segregationist/elitist/sexist/generally bad ist.Goodwill shouldn’t be just for men. It should also apply to women and children, and all animals, even the yucky ones like subway rats. I’d evenextend the goodwill not just to living creatures but to the dearly departed, and if we include them, we might as well include the undead, thosesupposedly mythic beings like vampires, and if they’re in, then so are elves, fairies, and gnomes. Heck, since we’re already being so generous in ourbig group hug, why not also embrace those supposedly inanimate objects like dolls and stu

Rachel Cohn

As it happens, I’m a terrible dancer. Bears are simply not made for dancing. We’re much better at sitting and sleeping and singing. But there are humans who catch bears and force us to dance. It’s agony. And there are other humans who pay to watch us.’Hannah sighed. ‘I suppose you’re right to distrust humans.’‘And that is why I must eat you,’ said the bear forlornly. ‘For the benefit of the entire bear population of the world. I’m awfully sorry about this.’‘That’s all right.’ Hannah shrugged her shoulders. ‘Is there any point in my trying to run away?’‘None. We bears may not be able to dance but we are experts when it comes to chasing things.’‘What if I climb a tree?’‘I’ll climb up after you, or push the tree over. It all depends on what sort of tree you choose to climb. Either way, you’ll end up eaten.’‘So be it,’ said Hannah. ‘How should I prepare myself?’‘I beg your pardon?’‘Will you eat me with my clothes on?’‘Of course. Otherwise it would be bad manners.

Doug MacLeod

...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Jeff Valdez

Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.

Richelle Mead

We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

Cynthia Heimel

Real men don't lift weights, they lift women.

Every male ballet dancer

The only difference between me and a famous writer is that I do not want to be famous.

Santosh Kalwar

I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

Gary Larson

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.

Kinky Friedman

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!

Ron White

To ugly ducklings everywhere,Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:They'll never get to be swans

Zoë Marriott

Friends are like bras, attached near your heart for support. Foes are like panties, deported, every now and then, when they get dirty.

Santosh Kalwar

Tell me that you don’t love me, and I’ll leave you alone. In this time or the next. Tell me that you don’t feel free. Tell me you can’t stand the way I look at you. But don’t tell me that I’m not allowed to love you. I will love you through every minute, every day, and every year for the rest of my life. My love for you is timeless.

Moryah DeMott

I’m in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.

Moryah DeMott

To be a good professional engineer,always start to study late for exams.Because it teaches you how tomanage time and tackle emergencies.

Aamir Sarfraz (aamir rajput khan)

Time define the deeds of the moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Time is thought.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity is the adventure of time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The gift of time is the grace of today.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Time is expensive !Then why it is free for many ??Time is a gift !Then why precious moments are uncherished ??Time has value !Then why we wait for the right time until slipps off ??Time is same to All !Then why complaint ?? I have no time !!!Time never returns !!Time cannot be recycled !!Time flies !!Use it as a Gift to someone !!!!It brings joy...! It heals...!Handle your Time Today !It will handle you Tomorrow...!!!GOOD MORNING ALL !Time makes you healthy & wealthy!!

Asha Bhojani

Each moment is now. Reality amounts to flickering lapses in time, as infinite layers of now. And with this constant motion we think of ourselves as being at rest. When in actuality we are zooming through space.

Todd Crawshaw

You can be anything you want to be as long as you know who you are. Paradoxically, once you realize this, you begin to lose your sense of self.

Todd Crawshaw

The present becomes the past instantaneously. Look back by all means but remember that you’re moving forward.

Terry Lander

The appointed time is the moment of miracles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Movement is life!

Alessandro Boccaletti

The delicate balance between these factors helps explain why, for instance, the typical prostitute earns more than the typical architect. It may not seem as though she should. The architect would appear tobe more skilled (as the word is usually defined) and better educated (again, as usually defined). But little girls don’t grow up dreaming of becoming prostitutes, so the supply of potential prostitutes is relatively small. Their skills, while not necessarily “specialized,” are practiced in a very specialized context. The job is unpleasant and forbidding in at least two significant ways: the likelihood of violence and the lost opportunity of having a stable family life. As for demand? Let’s just say that an architect is more likely to hire a prostitute than vice versa.

Levitt/Dubner

Somehow creationists keep us naturalists in track to some extent. They are the representation of human stupidity at its extreme. And we need some stupidity in the society for true intellect to be adored.

Abhijit Naskar

The handsome and the beautiful may earn the admiration of society, but all the wondrous inventions of the future are a by-product of the unsung, anonymous scientists.

Michio Kaku

A fire needs three things: a dry bed, fuel, and room to breathe.

Alexis M. Smith

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.

Gene Kranz

Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around.

Abhijit Naskar

Memorizing and regurgitating are not science. Real science is a constant investigation of the unknown.

Abhijit Naskar

Belief is indeed psychologically important for the human mind of general population, but that belief should be nicely compatible with scientific reasoning, otherwise that belief turns into prejudice, which is never beneficial to the human life.

Abhijit Naskar

Psychics, astrology, tarot cards - all these mystical non-sense are signs of a weak mind. Whenever such garbage starts grabbing hold of you, seek the help of a physician or therapist.

Abhijit Naskar

Made up of some holy freaking atoms.

Sirio Berati

Mind and Soul are one and the same thing.

Abhijit Naskar

Through the newly emerged field of Neurotheology, Scientists such as Andrew Newberg, Michael Persinger, myself and a few others have already taken the first step from the side of Science, to diminish the gap between Science and Religion. Now it is time for Religion to do the same. And the moment any religion does that, the eternal battle between Science and Religion would slowly start to disperse.

Abhijit Naskar

Religious literature from all around the world have an abundance of philosophical teachings as well, which in fact, prove quite helpful to humanity. But a rational human being must examine every single word from the scriptures before accepting it. Otherwise, it would only lead to religious bulimia, which in turn would bring chaos down on earth.

Abhijit Naskar

It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.

Abhijit Naskar

I am not a teacher of humanity, I am merely servant of humanity.

Abhijit Naskar

A beautiful face like yours should be smiling. Why don't you smile?""I do smile. When something beautiful happens in a book, I can't help but smile.

Polkadot

When circumstances pour the minds of some young helpless individuals with hatred and rage towards the society, and when that pain, hatred, and rage become unbearable, they turn to the scriptures as the final resort, in a pursuit to find absolution, guided by the psychopathic, misogynistic, genocidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent, fundamentalist preachers.

Abhijit Naskar

Every true scientist is a philosopher, but not every philosopher is a scientist.

Abhijit Naskar

Scientific understanding of nature, doesn't make a person religious or atheist. It makes a person liberated of all labels. Moreover it makes a person kind and understanding.

Abhijit Naskar

Dare to be an optimist.

Matt Ridley (Author)

The future is malleable, and to see it, you just have to listen to history and have a grand enough vision. - Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch - Developmental Genetics

Rachel Swaby

If only I knew now what I know in the future.

Shawn-Dutton Manchester

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Alexander Pope

There's something missing in how we inform the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the letters and numbers, but we fail to inform them about the importance of our connection with the living world

Sylvia Alice Earle

In the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of man-made bondages, science is the most effective tool we have till this date.

Abhijit Naskar

The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.

Abhijit Naskar

Just because 2 billion people believe it, doesn't mean it's true.

Neil A. Hogan

There is no such thing as reincarnation, but only similar incarnation.

Abhijit Naskar

Real science begins with curiosity and madness.

Abhijit Naskar

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