Marcellin Berthelot Quotes

#1. So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

Price Pritchett

#2. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

Mother Teresa

#3. I founded the American Red Cross.

Clara Barton

#4. I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.

Marcellin Berthelot

#5. Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.

Anatoly Karpov

#6. I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.

Tadashi Shoji

#7. Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage, God will come down to earth with His big ring of keys and will say to humanity, 'Gentlemen, it is closing time.'

Marcellin Berthelot

#8. Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

Lawrence Durrell

#9. At least he now he knew the truth about himself and Zane. Looking raptly into Zane's dark eyes, Ty wondered why he hadn't realized he loved the man earlier.

Abigail Roux

#10. Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

Joe Strummer

#11. I close my eyes and try and shut him out. My fingers don't want to stay in time. They want to race ahead in fury, plunging into the dense fog of black notes, pulling the music out by its roots, hurling it up out of the piano and into the air.

Tabitha Suzuma

#12. Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.

Dustin Hoffman

#13. Five years ago, when I was elected, I had the feeling that the president doesn't have much to do. I've realized, though, that this is not a rubber-stamp position.

Pratibha Patil

#14. Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.

Thornton Wilder

#15. I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is that ... one band would be successful according to a certain approach, and then every other band in the label gets sent down the same tube.

Emily Haines

#16. Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

#17. We all teach ... the chemistry of Lavoisier and Gay-Lussac.

Marcellin Berthelot

#18. Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.

Helen Steiner Rice