"Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is."

-- William S. Burroughs

#Love Quotes #Natural Quotes #Painkillers Quotes

“Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.”
“Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”
“Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”
“If I have an agenda or a goal, no one is going to deter me from what I want to do.”
“When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.”
“Research is creating new knowledge.”
“An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he does nothing. A genius, on the other hand, is content to do nothing, no matter what people think, if he canâ€™t find anything worth doing.”
“August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.”

You may also like: