Miaoling Lin Quotes

#1. In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they're vastly outnumbered by blessings.

David Jeremiah

#2. I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens ... to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

William Cowper

#4. No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn.

Anonymous

#5. The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.

Nicholas Negroponte

#6. There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#7. A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way to the moon is not something you'll find at your local industrial park. That's the show-stopper for the space elevator. The ribbon.

Seth Shostak

#8. The left is far more concerned with attacking America - its alleged racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia and economic inequality - than with fighting Islamism.

Dennis Prager

#9. Magic called love that binds our hearts together and yet is the very thing that has the power to break them beyond repair.

Namrata

#10. All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#11. One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination ... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.

Marcel Duchamp

#12. We are Malouins first, say the people of Saint-Malo.

Anthony Doerr

#13. One nurse thought I was "brave." I think she was talking about my steely-eyed, grin-and-bear-it kind of attitude. There were no tears, no complaints from me - a total lack of affect. In a victim, it is courage and thus admirable; in a predator, it is a lack of humanity and instills fear.

M.E. Thomas

#14. The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.

Frank Luntz

#15. Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

Kara Walker