Quotes
Authors
Robert Hooke

"Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly under the Water, and that either by the descending of the Waters to another part of the Earth by the alteration of the Centre of Gravity of the whole bulk, or rather by the Eruption of some kind of Subterraneous Fires or Earthquakes, great quantities of Earth have been deserted by the Water and laid bare and dry."

Source : "The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke". Book by Robert Hooke, 1705.

Robert Hooke

#Earthquakes Quotes #Fire Quotes #Water Quotes

“The last few years I've been doing the Middle East thing, and it's a tough decision whether to go there and try and knock off some events as a European Tour member, this year I think overall looking at my results, I played a little bit better on the West Coast than I have in the Middle East, so that was another determining factor for coming back here to an event that I have had some success in the past.”
“A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.”

Source : "Kidney Patients Face Dialysis Rationing" by Sheri Fink, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2010.
“It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to our bodily comforts. . . If a certain kind of dress constitutes a grave and proximate occasion of sin, and endangers the salvation of your soul and others, it is your duty to give it up.”
“I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.”
“People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.”
“It is not just the vulgar, premature bawdiness of pro-war triumphalists which I find revolting. It is that they accuse anti-war people of being uncaring about the people of Iraq, and the lack of concern that these proponents of war show for the bodies of the killed and those maimed and injured by their invasion.”
“My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.”

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