"If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography."

-- J. H. Hexter

#Communication Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Past Quotes

“The one thing I've come to figure out is this equation where the more uncomfortable I am, the better I'm going to look. I'm like, "This one really hurts. I must look awesome!" The corsets are uncomfortable, but they are so flattering. No, my waist will never be that small.”
“I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Be sensitive to subtle differences between 'intuition' and 'into wishing'.”
“The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought.”

Source : John R. Rice (2000). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.237, Sword of the Lord Publishers
“I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.”
“We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.”
“God does not challenge weak people - he has laid this upon me and I'm not going to question it.”
“I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well.”

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