Leslie Groves Quotes

#1. My pride fell with my fortunes.

William Shakespeare

#2. As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving you, so I choose to hate you ... to make my love bearable.

Rick Yancey

#3. People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

Leslie Groves

#4. We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless, of course, that thing happens to be the will, the determination, and the resolve of people everywhere that nations will never again clash on the battlefield.

Leslie Groves

#5. The key to the utilization of atomic energy for world peace will be found in the will of all people to restrict its use for the betterment of mankind.

Leslie Groves

#6. The real world is where the monsters are. That's where you learn whether you're any good or not.

Rick Riordan

#7. When I see a man or woman alone, he or she looks mysterious to me, which is only to say that for a moment I see another human being clearly.

Marilynne Robinson

#8. This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.

Henry Hudson

#9. Math never disappoints.

Francois Ozon

#10. Many of the men we wanted were used to living in cities or near large metropolitan areas and were a bit dubious about the prospects of life in a remote, sparsely populated area. We had somewhat similar trouble with the engineering people, although they were not so concerned at being isolated.

Leslie R. Groves

#11. [I]t is tragic that the forces for destruction that we unleashed are stronger than man's present ability to control them ...

Leslie Groves

#12. I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine it with the greatest precision and unleash it with the fullest abandon.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.

Amit Kalantri

#14. History is the teacher of life

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. We're pretty because we forget how light leaves us--rather, we almost forgive the darkness that comes loping after.

Susanna Mishler