L.Z.Marie Quotes

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself.

There has never been and never will be another you. You have a purpose - a very special gift that only you can bring to the world.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

I wasn’t raised, I was built.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Never start a business just to 'make money'. Start a business to make a difference.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.

I am terrified of being bored.

It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.

No other person ever has, or ever will have, the unique blend of talents, strengths, and perspective that you have.

Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

The key to SUCCESS is to START before you're ready

Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail?

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Stay on your game and keep going for your dreams. The world needs that special gift that only you have.