Will Henry Quotes

In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

The word in your mouth is anarchy.

Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.

Failure is a natural part of learning and developing, and it teaches us to be resolute and steadfast in our endeavors.

Light brings us the news of the Universe.

Letting go of the security of what is commonly understood requires a big leap of faith and a willingness to fall.

My inheritance is grief and sunlight and the ability to choose which to hold on to.

Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away!

I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.

'Maybe you out to go back there.' 'Can't. Gotta stay where... where I know what's w

Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.

Be as Student as long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life

Just one moment of madnessCan rescind a lifetime of moments.Lord Heikan

Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that’s better than the one you live in.

Try going out of your comfort zone and doing something for someone else.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.

We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their pasts when united became only half as dense instead of darker. - The World And The Door

The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do.

Your advice seems a little ironical.""Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.

Be what you are.

The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her.

Poverty would always exist when we allow injustices to speak.

May they run free forever and grow back their limbs!

It's only crazy if we fail.

I have a hard time trusting a person without a couple of murders on his record, Mr. Draedax.

This is the Rock, sweetheart, ” the owner added. “There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.

There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.

The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.

A night in space can last a long time … or maybe it never ends.

Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.

It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, the possible.

Sergeant Tin said it would be easier to just call you Corporal. She said you go back and forth, promoted one day and busted the next.

Therm-bombs! Drop ’em right on us! I been roasted before—it’s nothing!

Don't let 'em see they killed you!

This is a Spartacan fighting knife. Heard of the Spartacan Scouts? Rough boys. This knife belonged to one of them. He died saving my life.

How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.

This is what I hate most about guys like you. You didn't even try.

Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.

Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.

I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

'You're like starlight, ' Cam whispered, and his teeth scraped up my jaw. I shivered. 'I could lose myself in you.'

The rest of us need you to act, because if you don't, you're robbing yourself, your peers, your family, your organization, and the world of a contribution that only you can make.