Sylvia Nasar Quotes

#1. I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll go get it. You sit here - I'll get it, I'll make it.

Dana Gould

#2. A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

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#3. Hopes of putting their sad history behind them was bound to be bittersweet.

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#4. Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.

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#5. I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

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#6. several studies have since shown that basic military training during peacetime can precipitate schizophrenia in men with a hitherto unsuspected vulnerability to the illness.15

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#7. You are all my reasons.

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#8. He was right that I was afraid. But I didn't think I was afraid of the truth. I was afraid of believing something that would destroy me if it turned out to be a lie.

Amy Harmon

#9. Every sacred existence is history of time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. ... And when the time comes to choose yet another dream, I shall smile knowing that I had a life with no less challenges than others, but I chose to respond to them with love.

Raphael Zernoff

#11. Fermat's assertion that if n is any whole number and p any prime, then n multiplied by itself p times minus n is divisible by p.

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#12. A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.

Phyllis Battelle

#13. You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.

Rumi

#14. I thought I could save a very worthwhile person.

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#15. A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

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#16. It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go.

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#17. An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did the girl rams do? Faint with pleasure? Clap their cloven hooves? Lean against some nearby boulders, with little tubs of mountain grass, discussing the battle?

Edward St. Aubyn

#18. Jack's eyes widened, then he moved closer to Cameron and put his hand on her stomach. "Does it hurt?"
She covered his hand with hers. "I'd say it's only about a point two."
Jack smiled, tenderly touching her cheek. "I knew, when we were on that rooftop, that we'd be here someday.

Julie James

#19. Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

Alexander Pope

#20. There is the only way to change your life and it is to make it better.

Sergey Vedenyo

#21. RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'.

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#22. Woodrow Wilson, like most other educated Americans of his time, despised mathematics, complaining that "the natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be leaned by painful process of drill.

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#23. People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.

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#24. Performing the duty prescribed by (one's own) nature, one incurreth no sin.

Anonymous

#25. Hey Nash! You scared?'
'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!

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