Heatherstar Quotes

#1. The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.

Steven Weinberg

#2. What surrounds us is what is within us.

T.F. Hodge

#3. Mind not only what people say, but how they say it; and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will; and their looks frequently (reveal) what their words are calculated to conceal.

Lord Chesterfield

#4. I learned a lot. Friendship and kinship matter more than adventure. Boundaries only exist in our minds. A heart can travel to the horizon without moving a paw step. And I made the best friend any cat ever had.

Erin Hunter

#5. We were two halves to a whole. Water, the mother of creation. Land, the father who supported it. We were forever joined, our souls tethered. In this moment, the truth came to life: Whether the gate closed or not, I would never be whole without this man by my side.

Denise Grover Swank

#6. There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#7. Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

#8. A night spent spooning with your girlfriend isn't nearly so exciting when your uncle is curled up against your other side.

Mike Mullin

#9. In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Edward Gibbon

#10. In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time.

Carol Shields

#11. Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.

Kosho Uchiyama

#12. Cities, quite literally, have more of the image of God per square inch than any other place on earth. How can we not be drawn to such masses of humanity if we care about the same things that God cares about?

Timothy Keller

#13. The seriousness of madmen is one of the most exhausting realities.

Glen Duncan

#14. Now I can rejoice that I knew you, rather than mourn because I lost you.

Arthur C. Clarke

#15. I have often wondered if the irrational fear some men have of women that incites them to subjugate and oppress the female species begins in the adage: I brought you into this world, I can take you out!

Annastacia Dickerson

#16. There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.

Wayne Knight