Quotes of: Air-conditioning Keyword

Since only a narrow range of the allowed values for, say, the fine structure constant will permit observers to exist in the Universe, we must find ourselves in the narrow range of possibilities which permit them, no matter how improbable they are. We...

The Constants of Nature: The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe

It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make ...

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Jiko: "Surfer, wave, same thing." "That's just stupid, " I said. " A surfer's a person. A wave is a wave. How can they be the same?" Jiko looked out across the ocean to where the water met the sky. "A wave is born from deep conditions of the ocean. A...

A Tale for the Time Being

I pronounce you cured," he said. "My condition, however, is more critical. Alas. It's worsened considerably." "What condition?" said Alice, testing her foot out, stamping it on the ground to see how sore it was. "Being in love," he said, "with you." ...

One Pill Makes You Smaller: A Novel

So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they would no doubt have ...

The Time Machine

We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get...

The Weight of Glory

I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my...

Henri Matisse

Instead of showing visibly distinct alternate identities, the typical DID patient presents a polysymptomatic mixture of dissociative and posttraumatic stressdisorder (PTSD) symptoms that are embedded in a matrix of ostensibly non-trauma-related sympt...

James A. Chu

The traumatized person is often relieved simply to learn the true name of her condition. By ascertaining her diagnosis, she begins the process of mastery. No longer imprisoned in the wordlessness of the trauma, she discovers that there is a language ...

Judith Lewis Herman

Emmeline Finch: I'm only thinking of Russell's condition. Mrs. Marcus: You mean his financial condition, because that's the only condition that he has. J. Russell Finch: Yeah but... Mrs. Marcus: Emmeline, do you know why your husband had a nervous br...

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

Larry Hagman

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

Armand Assante

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

The Communist Manifesto

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

Alexis Carrel

Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.

Carl Hagelin

Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.

Ellsworth Huntington

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Margaret Sackville

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Robert Graves

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

Stella Young

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

Murray Rothbard

God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.

Michel Onfray