Specific Gravity Quotes

#1. The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Words, too, have genuine substance
mass and weight and specific gravity.

Tim O'Brien

#4. It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn't lived yet.

Kasie West

#5. It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

Ziggy Marley

#6. The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

Ramakrishna

#7. It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

John Bolton

#8. Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

Pat Summitt

#9. We all have a friend or family member who can't bear the sight of a mess. Use her obsessive compulsion to your advantage! Whisper in her ear: "I'm always impressed by how neat your house is. Can you do me a favor and help tidy this place up as the night goes on?"

Clinton Kelly

#10. How is the duration of a relationship relative to what those involved in it feel?

Sreesha Divakaran

#11. Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.

Irving Berlin

#12. Don't let pain define you. I do that a lot ... but we can fight it all together. That's what I love about us and our fans. we fight together.

Hayley Williams

#13. Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing - resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.

Joanna Macy

#14. We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them

Laurell K. Hamilton

#15. I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

Miranda Richardson