Charles Brenton Huggins Quotes

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

Charles Brenton Huggins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 22, 1901 - January 12, 1997

Topics

NatureJusticeIdentityBlindHer

You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

Maurice Greene

ExperienceControlWinEndEasyYou

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

Anita Desai

FamilyHistoryPastBookBelieve

The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional.

John Tiffany

Growing UpGrowingNeverEmotional

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

Steven Pinker

ChangeConflictBadClimate Change

I must give an account for what I've done.

Russell Johnson

DoneGiveMustAccount

Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'

Jasmine Guinness

MotherSmallBornSaidNeverShe

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

MistakeNeverSoundDiscretionMuch

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

Chris Rock

PeopleYouNeedTellCritic

I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more.

Clara Hughes

LoveThoughtBetterEnoughI Can

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

Arthur Erickson

WorkProcessArtistResponsibleSeem

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

Serena Williams

LifeWorkSmileFightLearnMy Life

There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself.

Mariella Frostrup

TimePurposeYourselfWaitingFind

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