"And I remembered with a pang what had happened to me the previous summer - that even Gallagher Girls aren't always as strong as they need to be."

-- Ally Carter

#Girl Quotes #Summer Quotes #Strong Quotes

“'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.”
“If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.”
“Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day with bees, which are, when all is said and done, simply a bunch of bugs. But spending my days in close and intimate contact with creatures who are structured so differently from humans, and who get on with life in such a different way, is like being a visitor in an alien but ineffably engaging world.”
“When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.”
“The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How to do things efficiently, how to do them cleverly.”
“Completeness is rare in history ...”
“People are irrational. What I want to do is let's take the irrational aspects out of it and let's just break this down. And you and I, let's go and see if we can't master this thing, a few steps at a time without giving up your day job, without having to give up your whole life.”
“Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem.... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence on crude oil.”

Source : Kenneth S. Deffeyes (2008). “Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage”, p.176, Princeton University Press

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