John Polkinghorne Quotes

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

John Polkinghorne

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HopeExperienceStartThinkReality

I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC.

Joe Lando

LoveBeautifulThinkColoradoUtah

I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

Joan Rivers

ChildrenHateFoolChildPeople

The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner - and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days.

Jennifer Grant

FatherCookingMeDinnerVoiceDown

My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'

Matt Groening

YouWantActCommentKidsYour

Some people can go out in a tight, short dress and heels, and it works, but even if I'm going to a club, I've got to throw on a big hoodie or something. And that's if you can get me into something tight in the first place.

Suki Waterhouse

DressPeopleMeShortYouPlace

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

Simon Newcomb

BirdFlySpeedWillSeeNatural

We always find a way to learn and to get better.

Travis Kalanick

BetterLearnFindWayAlwaysGet

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

Mindy Cohn

ChanceYouKnowMoreOfferGiven

I'm a pack rat, like most people.

Donald Baechler

PeopleRatLikeMostPack

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.

Prince Andrew

FamilyFunnyMomentQueenDinnerGo

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

LoveAloneLivingWayDeepestTakes

Being British, we tend to think of ourselves as America's best friend. And as your best friend, that gives us a little bit of license to point out things that could have been handled better.

Philip Kerr

FriendBestBest FriendThinkBetter

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