A world without glass would strike at the foundation of modern progress: the extended lifespans that come from understanding the cell, the virus, and the bacterium; the genetic knowledge of what makes us human; the...

From a genetic perspective, there are significant strain differences in their structure.

I’ve resigned myself. Everybody has had to resign themselves. We’ve been told it’s not going to change. A lot of people are upset at the limited number of tickets, a good number of people. They...

What we don’t often realize is that the rebirth and collapse of grand things do not begin with grand things at all, like the things we see, but with the small, like the things we...

De leur meilleur côté t chons de voir les choses:Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers épineux;Moi je me réjouis et rends gr ces aux dieuxQue les épines aient des roses.

Journal writing Helps Us Heal. That’s one of the therapeutic methods to helping us cope with hardship or painful situations in our lives. Writing in a journal allows us to make sense of things and...

From a legal perspective, it is going fine.

When Gregory says, ‘Are they guilty?’ he means, ‘Did they do it?’ But when he says, ‘Are they guilty?’ he means, ‘Did the court find them so?’ The lawyer’s world is entire unto itself, the...

Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.

I had a dream about you. I said green was blue and yellow, and you said green was yellow and blue. You were like that with everything I said, taking the exact opposite stance, yet...

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we’ve all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?

Sometimes life holds more than people allow themselves to see. Such individuals may continue to live as though they are blind for eternities before realizing they were merely clamping their eyes shut.

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder’s frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we...

After every voyage, we bring with us renewed mind, refreshed soul and new viewpoints on life.

In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.

If one comes to the sense that they have arrived, they no longer feel the need to submit themselves to the process of learning and growing. This is a dangerous mindset to carry. The day...

We don’t see the world as it is; we see the world as we are…if someone has a critical eye, they will always find something to be critical about. And if they have a grateful...

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your...

There is the truth , the perception of truth, and versions that don’t even come close; but it’s the perception that creates the most conflict every time.

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.–

Sometimes she wondered if the shape of his eyes affected how he saw things. That was probably the most racist question of all time.

One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.

Your life is a print-out of your thoughts.

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter “Nike” and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

She was still glad she looked like Scully. He wasn’t pretty either, but pretty people weren’t the kind you need. Pretty people saw themselves in the mirror and were either too happy or too sad....

We are all glorified motion sensors.Some things only become visible to us when they undergo change.We take for granted all the constant, fixed things, and eventually stop paying any attention to them. At the same...

I figure I’ll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.

All science is based on observation: all our observations are taken DURING Humpty Dumpty’s fall, because we were born after he lost his seat on the wall and shall be extinct long before he reaches...

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over...

Sophie has a gift,” she said. “She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not...

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.

We’re so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody’s going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save...

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business – that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right...

I got a zero. That’s like a perfect ten—it’s only one away from being flawless. Remember this next time you think you have nothing.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

Outside has everything. Whenever I think of a thing now like skis or fireworks or islands or elevators or yo-yos, I have to remember they’re real, they’re actually happening in Outside all together. It makes...

The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams’ character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed...

The landscape looks different from every blade of grass.

With time comes perspective.

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the...

What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. … In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover...

true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

Mirrors lie.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and...

How you look it is pretty much how you’ll see it

As an artist, motive means opportunity

Don’t go to Men about God. Go to God about Men.

The thing that hung us up was we could not provide documented proof. Their (Union Pacific) perspective was it really wasn’t that serious of an issue.