My mother says that my father truly enjoyed having a son. My two-years-younger twin sisters felt that he didn’t quite know how to enjoy them. But I wasn’t aware of those things then. So many of my childhood memories involve him. All the excursions into science were shaped by his knowledge and enthusiasm (Robert F. Engle)
Commitment is the foundation of focus (Shannon L. Alder)
He expects us to kill him,” Palomides said to Dinadan.”Some people are so demanding,” Dinadan replied. “Considering we’ve only just met, I mean (Gerald Morris, The Ballad of Sir Dinadan)
He was a prince. There was no hope in saying yes to the boy with the garnet eyes who left me reckless and confused at every turn. There was no future with him. None. Darren had duty. To the Crown. Gods only knew Priscilla and Blayne had spent enough time reminding me of that (Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice)
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Doctors generally consider smallpox to be the worst human disease. It is thought to have killed more people than any other infectious pathogen, including the Black Death of the Middle Ages. Epidemiologists think that smallpox killed roughly one billion people during its last hundred years of activity onearth (Richard Preston, The Demon in the Freezer)
A balloon seller sells his breath till death to spread happiness, while he can’t taste any of it (Sujit Meher)
If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex (Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance)
I’ve learned that in order to be an efficacious woman with any sort of spiritual power, I first have to love my body (Ashley Mae Hoiland, One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God)
Moments have fallen from your eyes, like tears written in the wind. There, on the river of knowledge, where you live from your memories (Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems)