"It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up."

-- Deborah Meier

#Giving Up Quotes #Differences Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?”
“You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.”
“If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.”

Source : "Nazi era French Resistance leader dies" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. April 11, 2012.
“In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.”
“I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.”
“But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger. â€œYou're green. Are you sick?â€ â€œIt's a fashion thing, Posy. Like wearing lipstick,â€ I say. â€œIt's meant to be pretty,â€ whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, â€œI think you'd be pretty in any color.”
“I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.”
“A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street.”

Source : Jean Ferriss Leich, Hugh Ferriss (1980). “Architectural visions: the drawings of Hugh Ferriss”

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