Showing posts with label quote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quote. Show all posts

Saturday, August 1, 2026

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred twenty two.

                                                            Marie Curie.

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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”

“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

“There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.”

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/marie-curie-quotes

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred twenty one.

                                         Ada Lovelace.

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“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”

“If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me "poetical science"?”

“I am in a charming state of confusion.”

“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.”

“What is imagination?... It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.”

Source if information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3950749.Ada_Lovelace  

Monday, June 1, 2026

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred twenty.

                                                  Louisa May Alcott.

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“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

“I ask not for any crown  
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

“A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.”

“I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead…
I think I shall write books.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1315.Louisa_May_Alcott 

Friday, May 1, 2026

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred nineteen.

                                                     Agatha Christie.

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“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.”

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”

“Time is the best killer.”

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”

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Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred eighteen.

                                                             Franz Schubert.

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“Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.”

“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”

“Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/franz-schubert-quotes

Sunday, March 1, 2026

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred seventeen.

                                                   Aesop.

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“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/12452.Aesop

Sunday, February 1, 2026

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred sixteen.

                                                               Strabo.
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“God sent his beloved creatures to Datça for them to live longer.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/219320.Strabo 

Thursday, January 1, 2026

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred fifteen.

                                                      Carlo Collodi.

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“Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.”

“Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!”

“What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.”

Source of information:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/3141-Carlo_Collodi

Monday, December 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred fourteen.

                                                              Beatrix Potter.
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“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/11593.Beatrix_Potter

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred thirteen.

                                                                  Jane Austen.
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“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1265.Jane_Austen

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred twelve.

                                                                  Pamela Travers.

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“Once we have accepted the story, we cannot escape the story's fate.”

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6872556.P_L_Travers 

Monday, September 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred eleven.

                                          Lawrence Durrell.

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“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”

“It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.”

“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8166.Lawrence_Durrell

Friday, August 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred ten.

                                                    Emily Brontё.

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“I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.”“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4191.Emily_Bront_

and https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4191.Emily_Bront_?page=2  

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred nine.

                                                                  Tycho Brahe.
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“With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.”

“Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.”

“I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/tycho-brahe-quotes   

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred eight.

                                                            Filippo Brunelleschi.

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“Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.”

“To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.”

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https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/filippo-brunelleschi-quotes 

Thursday, May 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred seven.

                                                                  Lord Byron.

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“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.”

“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ”

“Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange, Stranger than Fiction”

“Friendship is love without wings.”

“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/44407.Lord_Byron  

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred six.

                                                     Mary Shelley.
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“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”

“The beginning is always today.”

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

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Saturday, March 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred five.

                                                  O. Henry.
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“All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best”

“I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.”

“There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.”

“It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.”

“The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. ”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8993.O_Henry 

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred four.

                                                    Johannes Kepler.

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“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”

“I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.”

“Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/johannes-kepler-quotes  

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred three.

                                                                   Thomas More.

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“I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.”

“An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.”

“I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.”

“It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.”

“The heart that has truly loved never forgets.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/thomas-more-quotes 

and https://www.azquotes.com/author/10365-Thomas_More