thinking of you poems

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. ~Frederick Faber



Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ~Albert Einstein



Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. ~Octavio Paz



To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ~Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science, 1995



Curlers do it hard. ~Saying of the sport



The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993



For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. I Timothy 6:7



Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. ~Mark Twain



The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign. ~Primo Levi



That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places. ~Bucky Waters, on Tom Hammonds



Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall. ~John Boorman, Money into Light, 1985



Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. ~Author Unknown



You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown



A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again. ~Author Unknown



Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett



And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988



We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. ~Konrad Adenauer



With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Notebook L," Aphorisms



If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. ~Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics