"I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain."

-- Abraham Verghese

#Believe Quotes #Past Quotes #Black Quotes

“I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy, and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!”
“You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.”
“Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.”
“The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, itâ€™s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird”
“I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.”
“Trust in God's timing. It's better to have to wait a while and have things fall into place then to rush into something and have things fall apart.”
“A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions”

Source : "Various meanings of 'theory'". American Political Science Review, 52.04, 1958.
“Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.”

Source : Anne McCaffrey (2016). “Dragonsong”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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