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Dmitri Mendeleev Quotes

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: russian
Birth: February 8, 1834 - February 2, 1907

Topics

Work Yourself Joy Others Mark Only

When was the last time you saw a straight black love story without any guns?

Love Time Story Black You Without

'As I Lay Dying,' I reread that often. That's the first work of Faulkner's that I read that so amazed me and that I responded to emotionally and viscerally. I admired it so much, and I think that's why I keep rereading it.

Work Me Think Why First Dying

I don't think families can earn enough money with one wage-earner any more. I also think there are a lot of men who don't want to bust their butts and do that kind of work. They want to stay home with the kids, but guys who do want to do that aren't looked up to as the masculine kind of guy, and that's a shame.

Work Home Money Men Think Enough

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Life Beautiful Great Architecture

'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory.

Stanley Hauerwas

Words Victory Tradition Know Cry

The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men. For soldiers at war, there's comforting continuity in the traditions and inevitability of Christmas.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Home Men War Christmas Soldiers

'The Room' is relationships. The room is you and me and everyone in America. That's basically what 'The Room' is.

Me America You Relationships Room

You think you want to be an astronaut, and then after a while you're a geo-major for whatever reason. That's just the way it is in college.

College Think You Want Way Reason

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that a person's sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent.

Ronnie Musgrove

Life Good Age Knowledge Compassion

I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.

Lloyd Blankfein

Time Forward Compromise View Look

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

Life My Life Doing Said Been Just

I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.

Goals Me Moving Possible Along Just

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