Beryl Reid Quotes

#1. There will be well-testable theories, hardly testable theories, and non-testable theories. Those which are non-testable are of no interest to empirical scientists. They may be described as metaphysical.

Karl Popper

#2. Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

John Bunyan

#3. You never possess a cat; you are allowed to be in a cat's life, which, of course, is a privilege.

Beryl Reid

#4. In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.

Beryl Reid

#5. I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

Q-Tip

#6. Markus's mind jumped straight to the most obvious explanation: Is the president nuking people again?

Neal Stephenson

#7. Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.

Leslie Lamport

#8. Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

Nathan Myhrvold

#9. Maybe this planet is a paradise for the majority but to me feels like I'm traveling in hell and finding lost angels I must rescue.

Robin Sacredfire

#10. Stay put and you will remain as such. Jump in and you might get wet. Dive and you might find true happiness.

Carol Vorvain

#11. That she was irreplaceable became a bittersweet loyalty: Her death was what I had now instead of her.

Gail Caldwell

#12. I don't always choose to stay fit by playing tennis, because that comes with its own wear-and-tear.

Andre Agassi

#13. Eros supported a population of one and a half million, a little more than Ceres had in visitors at any given time.

James S.A. Corey

#14. I go out of my way to make sure you don't have any reason to feel jealous, but when you do get possessive, I like it. I want you to fight for me. I want you to care that much. I want you crazy about me. But possessiveness without trust is hell. If you don't trust me, we've got nothing.

Sylvia Day

#15. Someday I'm going to push Jericho Barrons as far as I can and see what happens.

Karen Marie Moning

#16. Along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.

David Abram

#17. It was a pity Mr. Brocklehurst could not see them too; he would perhaps have felt that, whatever he might do with the outside of the cup and platter, the inside was further beyond his interference than he imagined.

Charlotte Bronte