Inge Lehmann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.
-- Inge Lehmann

#Men #Vain #Should
I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my mother and sister, and the floor began to move under us. The hanging lamp swayed. It was very strange. My father came into the room. "It was an earthquake," he said. The center had evidently been at a considerable distance, for the movements felt slow and not shaky. In spite of a great deal of effort, an accurate epicenter was never found. This was my only experience with an earthquake until I became a seismologist 20 years later.
-- Inge Lehmann

#Mother #Morning #Distance

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.
Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.
Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

Inge Lehmann famous quotes

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