Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: July 1, 1742 - February 24, 1799

Topics

NatureAloneRememberAlwaysObserve

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

Andrew Garfield

Tough TimesMeToughKidSkinnyGot

People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.

Robert Redford

BusinessPeopleHeritageDevelopment

I want to be able to do what I want to do and have people care about it.

Amanda Seales

PeopleCareWantAbleAbout

Cameron and I actually do wear the same size. It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.

Toni Collette

EasySameSizeWearMadeWardrobe

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

Marvin Hamlisch

WorkFunnyPeopleMeEnergyYou

I think as long as I can tell you a story about people that you understand, it doesn't matter if you don't like what they do; you understand why they did it.

Courtney A. Kemp

PeopleStoryThinkLongYouI Can

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

Chuck Palahniuk

CommunityAloneLonelinessPeople

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

Bob Woodward

MeUniqueFindWashingtonWatergate

Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a hypothetical 'Other'.

Brian Stableford

GodResponsibilityBeliefElementary

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

FriendshipGoodRelationshipStrong

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

Sylvia Earle

EndSharksWhalesYearsUpBeen

'Self-deport?' What the heck does that mean?

Susana Martinez

MeanDoesHeck

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