An Lise Quotes

#1. Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

Jackson Browne

#2. Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

Lise Meitner

#3. What I do is put mirrors in the right place to reflect an image.

Lise Sarfati

#4. That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.

Lise Hand

#5. Millions of tiny arthropod feet swarmed over me until my entire body was enveloped. They

Inge-Lise Goss

#6. If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.

Lise Arin

#7. Rules are for guys who don't know what they want.

Lise Horton

#8. Life is the messy bits.

Lise Friedman

#9. Sex is all right" he says
"It's all right at the time, and it's all right before" says Lise, "but the problem is afterwards. That is, if you're not an animal. Most of the time, afterwards is pretty sad.

Muriel Spark

#10. Did you ever look out in that dark and fucked-up world out there and think, how do I let my daughter out into that? And how do i stop her? And the things you can't stop because you're ... because-

Megan Abbott

#11. What interests me is the way people regard themselves. When we are 15, we all feel as if we are beginning to become somebody else.

Lise Sarfati

#12. Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?

Maira Kalman

#13. Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.

Lise Meitner

#14. Yes, Lise. You see, your question whether we do not despise that unhappy man by dissecting his soul was the question of a person who has suffered a lot. I'm afraid I don't know how to put it properly, but a person to whom such questions occur is himself capable of suffering.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Louisa May Alcott

#16. You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

Lise Meitner

#17. Do what you love...

Lise Cartwright

#18. There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

Daniel Johns

#19. I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.]

Lise Meitner

#20. I will have nothing to do with a bomb!

Lise Meitner

#21. Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

George Burns

#22. French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

Mireille Guiliano

#23. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

Bryan White

#24. One of the great joys in life is having ones hair brushed.

Lise Friedman

#25. Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.

Leslie Caron

#26. But it only makes visible a darkness that's already there. Maybe eating it like that ... " She looked at Deenie, her voice like a pulse in Deenie's brain. "Maybe you bring the darkness inside you. Maybe Lise has it inside her now.

Megan Abbott

#27. We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives.

Lise Deharme

#28. You're a complication I don't need." He followed, placed his hands on each side of her head, and planted his knee between her thighs. "But you're a complication I want. One I'm going to have.

Rachel Gibson

#29. No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.

Lise Meitner

#30. If you want to be successful at anything in life, you have to take action.

Lise Cartwright

#31. I reached maturity under the impression that I was gathering the experience to order my life for happiness. Indeed, I accomplished the not unusual feat of solving each question in my mind long before it presented itself to me in life - and of being beaten and bewildered just the same.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#32. Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

C.S. Lewis

#33. Remember what I give it's a part of the puzzle. What I give is a part of the lise, what I give is a lesson!

Deyth Banger

#34. The life must not be easy if it is only rich in contents

Lise Meitner

#35. What the hell was she supposed to do now? She didn't want to kill the woman. She'd never killed a woman before.

Lise MacTague

#36. I love physics with all my heart ...
It is a kind of personal love, as one has for
a person to whom one is grateful for many things.

Lise Meitner

#37. Brandeis thought that the British should allow more Jews into Palestine. It was not only their obligation under the Balfour Declaration; it was the only way Jews could be saved from Hitler. When

Lewis J. Paper