Hubert Reeves Quotes

#1. It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. Fire can destroy, fire can kill, but it can also create. Forest burned in the summer will be green by spring, better and stronger than before. Cal's flame will build and bring roots from the ashes of war.

Victoria Aveyard

#3. What part of 'directly' didn't you understand?"
"Same part of 'play well with others' you never understand, O cantankerous one," I muttered.
He laughed, surprising me [ ... ] "I'd be a lot less cantankerous if you admitted you wanted to fuck me and we got down to it.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.

Hubert Reeves

#5. But we had plenty of time for youthful indecision, both apart and together, for limping into the future past the unforgettable ash heaps of our histories.

Robyn Schneider

#6. The mechanic says, If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. The thing that Von Neumann had, which I've noticed that other geniuses have, is the ability to pick out, in a particular problem, the one crucial thing that's important.

Walter Isaacson

#8. School is the same as anything else. You do it because you're told to do it when you're little enough to listen. You continue because someone told you it was important. It's like you're a train in a tunnel. Graduation is the light at the end.

A.S. King

#9. People imitate their leader. Lead by example.

Barbara Corcoran

#10. I don't want to limit myself. I want to keep doing all sorts of roles. I guess what lies behind this urge is the conviction that movies have changed my life. And certain performances have inspired me to try to be someone different.

Rinko Kikuchi

#11. There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

Herman Melville

#12. How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith.

Rosemary M. Wixom

#13. Everything about this alien place feels odd to me. As if, I have entered a grand castle and not a school, if one can call it a school

Kimaya Mathew

#14. It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.

Richard Kadrey

#15. A kiss on the nose does much toward turning aside anger.

Charles M. Schulz

#16. The Human is the most insane species

Hubert Reeves