I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.
Ada Lovelace
Related I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE blackmagic on a person
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blackmagic on a pe... ASTRODOST Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place... ANKITA SINGHAL I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It... JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have... LEMONY SNICKET He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Farming is the oldest profession on earth SOTONYE ANGA He said it was the kind of book you made your own. STEPHEN CHBOSKY No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It's nice to have things to look forward to. STEPHEN CHBOSKY a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We're always taught that God wants us to always only say "I can't do this without You God" , "Whatev... C. JOYBELL C. A Hazel é diferente. Ela caminha com leveza, velhote. Caminha com leveza sobre a Terra. A Hazel sab... JOHN GREEN In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ... LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an... ARTHUR GOLDEN
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The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that wer... ADA LOVELACE Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of th... ADA LOVELACE I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works... ADA LOVELACE I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I ca... ADA LOVELACE I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now se... ADA LOVELACE Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else ... ADA LOVELACE I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully ... ADA LOVELACE I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continue... ADA LOVELACE I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-e... ADA LOVELACE Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen w... ADA LOVELACE As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine. ADA LOVELACE I shall, in due time, be a Poet. ADA LOVELACE That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show. ADA LOVELACE Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly... ADA LOVELACE The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and ... ADA LOVELACE Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to us... ADA LOVELACE I think I am more determined than ever in my future plans, and I have quite made up my mind that not... ADA LOVELACE I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I wa... ADA LOVELACE We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard lo... ADA LOVELACE A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wiel... ADA LOVELACE In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical... ADA LOVELACE The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It hol... ADA LOVELACE The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know ... ADA LOVELACE If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such lib... RICHARD LOVELACE If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, -- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such li... RICHARD LOVELACE Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an her... RICHARD LOVELACE Oh! could you view the melody
Of every grace,
And music of her face,
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Nor iron bars a cage,
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JACQUE LOVELACE He takes time to work with you one-on-one if you need it and works at a pace everyone can handle. JACQUE LOVELACE i'm sorry if i wasn't the daughter you had in mind -i only ever wante... AMANDA LOVELACE During the Sanford administration, economic development has come to a virtual standstill, public job... OSCAR LOVELACE once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herse... AMANDA LOVELACE The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasi... ADA YONATH I'm always having to get rid of reporters. ADA YONATH From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Su... ADA YONATH The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in or... ADA YONATH I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way ... ADA YONATH Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial pl... ADA YONATH There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depen... ADA YONATH After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, w... ADA YONATH I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two a... ADA YONATH At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan t... ADA YONATH My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to ... ADA YONATH During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men. ADA YONATH Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required. ADA YONATH I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be... ADA YONATH Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Aff... ADA YONATH I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, b... ADA YONATH I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in th... ADA YONATH It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation. ADA YONATH I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I care... ADA YONATH If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry. ADA YONATH I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an ex... ADA YONATH People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony... ADA YONATH Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? ADA CAMBRIDGE O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? ADA CAMBRIDGE Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law d... ADA CAMBRIDGE You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her ADA LEVERSON He seemed at ease and to have the look of the last gentleman in Europe. ADA LEVERSON Everything comes to the man who won't wait ADA LEVERSON She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night ADA LEVERSON A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. ADA HUXTABLE Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils. ADA HUXTABLE The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush. ADA HUXTABLE The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. ADA HUXTABLE In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson... ADA HUXTABLE Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these "gateways" to the cities were palaces of splendor a... ADA HUXTABLE Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. ADA HUXTABLE An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awf... ADA HUXTABLE The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus i... ADA HUXTABLE Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is je... ADA HUXTABLE Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law d... ADA CAMBRIDGE Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience mo... ADA LEVERSON If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderf... ADA TEIXEIRA DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ri... ADA YONATH ...there is so much beauty in the trying, and in the failing, and in the trying again. ADA CALHOUN People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is pure... ADA YONATH I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research. ADA YONATH Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! ADA CAMBRIDGE Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to... ADA YONATH I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be ... ADA YONATH You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her. ADA LEVERSON It seems like everyone wants to come in February. ADA SUMMERS Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition. ADA CALHOUN A lot of people don't realize (the church is here). They drive by here all the time. ADA SUMMERS I figure people are good enough to donate it, it needs to be there for future relatives. ADA SUMMERS No one comes to stone the servant when they could watch the execution of the king. ADA PALMER As married people, we dwell on a spectrum between happy and unhappy, in love and out of love, and we... ADA CALHOUN I don’t like boys.” I shook my head. “That’s no impediment to them. Madame raised gentl... ADA PALMER Predators need the right to tear out each other’s throats. ADA PALMER I reached for her through the darkness, but she was gone. Like dominoes folding over, the rest of th... ADA ADAMS My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about scienc... ADA YONATH We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes. ADA PALMER My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressi... ADA YONATH The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was ... ADA YONATH For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discriminati... ADA YONATH When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, ... ADA YONATH Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or withou... ADA YONATH Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could. ADA YONATH Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes. ADA YONATH My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my consta... ADA YONATH Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner. ADA YONATH The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the openi... ADA CALHOUN People who don't marry miss both the pelting hardships of marriage and its warm rewards. ADA CALHOUN All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind thos... ADA LIMON It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hil... MAUD HART LOVELACE She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed he... MAUD HART LOVELACE This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having priva... MAUD HART LOVELACE Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted t... MAUD HART LOVELACE Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be le... MAUD HART LOVELACE Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and ... MAUD HART LOVELACE But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it. MAUD HART LOVELACE When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they li... MAUD HART LOVELACE The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright. MAUD HART LOVELACE New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change," Betsy decid... MAUD HART LOVELACE Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. MAUD HART LOVELACE The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in... MAUD HART LOVELACE An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't... ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks. ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of d... ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE This is more than a success story. It is a dream come true. ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush. ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson... ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these "gateways" to the cities were palaces of splendor a... ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awf... ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus i... ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils. ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is je... ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE A discreet study in expensive nonostentation. ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE