William Crookes Quotes

#1. It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.

William Crookes

#2. Just before bedtime prayers, evaluate each day. Make plans for tomorrow that will move you toward your long-range goal. Strive for a close partnership with God in making your dreams come true.

Florence S. Jacobsen

#3. It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

Olivia Wilde

#4. [T]he rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.

William Crookes

#5. When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.

David Platt

#6. He had come to think that so long as a man wants to do right he may go where he can: when he can go no further, then it is not the way.

George MacDonald

#7. Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent that we could not survive. The smallest bit placed on one's arm would produce a blister which it would need months to heal.

William Crookes

#8. But when women are asked when they're going to have children, there is, in actually, another darker, more pertinent question lying underneath it.

Caitlin Moran

#9. My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Sara Shepard

#10. You don't tell a boy that he is a boy. You simply act like a man.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#11. I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.

Jackie Walorski

#12. The best thing you can ever do for the people who love you is to make it home alive.

Seanan McGuire

#13. For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained.

Donald Miller

#14. Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as methylethylamylophenylium.

William Crookes

#15. Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. My job has always been to not only make my character look like a badass but to also make the actor I am fighting opposite to be the character they need to be too.

Zoe Bell

#17. My accent is of African ancestry and so is my origin and I have no intention to change any of it. Therefore nobody should expect me to fraudulently behave as if I was anything else.

Gloria D. Gonsalves