Mateusz Urbanowicz Quotes

#1. Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid.

Alfred Hershey

#2. Some languages, for example, have a gender distinction that is based only on "animacy," the distinction between animate beings (people and animals of both sexes) and inanimate things.

Guy Deutscher

#3. Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.

Louis MacNeice

#4. What an odd thing it must be to watch everything you've ever known be destroyed. The fire spreads with hostility, with disregard.

Pittacus Lore

#5. For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#6. The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

Eugene J. Martin

#7. IT'S EASY to poke fun at nonsensical office speak. For one thing, it sounds exhausting: a colleague might "reach out," "drill down," and promise to "circle back" in a single e-mail. But by signaling membership in a white-collar tribe, meaningless jargon can be quite powerful.

Anonymous

#8. There are good times in everybody's satchel, nor do we all get a free pass. That would be a split decision, as they call it. How else is the planned brotherhood to float forward?

John Ashbery

#9. Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.

Orison Swett Marden

#10. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.

John Steinbeck

#11. Mother was a beautiful young woman; the house was too plain, too small to contain her. I watched her; for the first time I understood that she had an inner life that didn't have anything to do with me or my brothers and sisters.

Ayana Mathis

#12. Now for some heartwork.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#13. You've ruined me for Dawn. That's supposed to make you feel better."
"Neal, I want to ruin you for everyone."
"Christ." His voice got closer, like he was pushing the receiver against his chin. "You have.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now ... He was alone and there was nothing for him.

Gary Paulsen