"But we're lost in a world of appearances now."

-- Claire Messud

#World Quotes #Appearance Quotes #Lost Quotes

“I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.”

Source : "Killer heels and a prize turkey". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2009.
“Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up." he smirks.”
“The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.”
“Only those who dare may fly”
“Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.”

Source : Thomas S. Kuhn (2011). “The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change”, p.234, University of Chicago Press
“I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.”
“Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.”
“Life is graded on the curve. It's not how big you are, how strong you are, how smart you are. It's how good you are at the things that count relative to the people around you.”

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