She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.
This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.
Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.
Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?
To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.
Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.
One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.
There are over 50 brilliant scientists working at my lab, and being sensitive to their needs is among the top skill sets that scientists like me have to learn.
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions.
It rarely adds anything to say, 'In my opinion' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.
In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.
Thank God, my name isn’t in the list of those who died or were killed yesterday!
I am gazing-- desires unaware of destiny frisk about my mindscape like children.
Should I ask everyone the question that should not have been asked? Or should I turning up to the sky be answering the question that’s not been asked?
Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams he (life) continued to lie still, pretended as if he was in a deep slumber.
If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.