"[Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's invention of the Haber-Bosch process."
Michael Pollan
"There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scenes..."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Some people sit at life’ banquet table while others serve them."
Anonymous
"I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, 'Die!' Paltry, prudent hypocrites!"
Anonymous
"We live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance."
Amit Ray
"Traveling down a road of self-destructionWith no room for any reconstruction."
Jessica-Lynn Barbour
"Women were beyond me.They saw somethingdepraved.There was one waitressa little older thanI, she rather smiled,lingered when shebrought mycoffee.That was plenty for me, that wasenough.- Young in New Orleans."
Charles Bukowski
"If we can say no to all our worries, nothing can stop our greatness in life."
Bamigboye Olurotimi
"It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat."
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
"Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after."
Richelle E. Goodrich
"I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is."
B. F. Skinner
"I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is."
Sydney Pollack
"The gracious moment a given time."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"...Just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives."
Steve Martin
"Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played."
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