10 Quotes about relationships

1 "I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?" Nicholas Sparks

2 "Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys." Nicholas Sparks

3 "I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me." Steve Maraboli

4 "Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside" Sarah Dessen

5 "Assumptions are the termites of relationships." Henry Winkler

6 "I like my relationships like I like my eggs. Over easy." Jarod Kintz

7 "Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up." Marian Keyes

8 "We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence." Cornel West

9 "When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment." Bell Hooks

10 "Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved." Wm. Paul Young

Quotes about faith

"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust." ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right." ― Max Lucado

"I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it." —Edgar Allan Poe

"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." —Mother Teresa

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." — Mahatma Gandhi

"None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith." — Paulo Coelho

"The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings." —J.M. Barrie

"Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe." —Mitch Albom

"We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone." —Martin Luther

"I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith." —Nicholas Sparks

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe." —Voltaire

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."—Rabindranath Tagore

Curassow

   Curassow is any of several long-tailed birds that live in the mountains of South America and Central America. Curassows are slightly lighter in weight than turkeys and range in length from 20 to 40 inches. They have an erectile crest of stiff, curled feathers on their heads and sometimes a bright-colored bill. In some species, including the great curassow (Crax rubra), a fleshy yellow protuberance, or knob, grows on the forehead. In this species, the male is black with a white belly, and the female is reddish brown.
   Curassows live in dense forests, often in large groups. They feed on vegetation, insects, and worms.
   Curassows are classified in the order Galliformes, family Cracidae.

What does curfew mean?

   Curfew is a law that forbids people to be on the streets after a certain hour. The word comes from the French couvrefeu, meaning "cover the fire." In medieval European towns curfew laws were passed to reduce the danger from torches or open fires in the wooden houses. A bell was rung every night at about eight o'clock to warn the townsmen to put out their lights, cover their fires, and go to bed. In remote English towns a curfew bell is still rung to tell the tune. Today, curfew is imposed chiefly in times of war or revolution or when a district is under martial law. Some towns in the United States have established curfews to keep children at home after a certain hour.

Curculio

   Curculio, also called snout beetle, is any of several stout-bodied beetles that cause widespread damage to fruit and nut crops. Like other weevils, curculios have long, slender, usually curved snouts, which they use to puncture fruits and nuts in order to eat the pulp and to lay their eggs.
   One of the most destructive species in the United States is the plum curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar), a mottled dark-brown insect about one-fifth of an inch long. Plum curculios emerge in the spring to feed on blossoms and young fruit. The females deposit their eggs in a hole inside developing fruit and make a crescent-shaped gash around the hole. The larvae, which hatch in 3 to 12 days, spend about 3 weeks feeding on the pulp before they enter the ground to pupate. In addition to damaging apples, peaches, and other fruit, curculios carry brown rot, a plant disease.
   Other destructive curculios in North America are the dark-red apple curculio (Tachypterellus quadrigibbus) and the grape curculio (Craponius inequalls).

Diet quotes

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. -Jim Davis

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -Jackie Gleason

Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you. -Joan Rivers

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. -Alexander Pope

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.
-Courteney Cox

I don't believe in dieting. -Joan Collins

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more. -Jack LaLanne

People who shop in health food stores never look healthy. -Amy Sedaris

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat. -Gina Gershon

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet. -Jerry Brown

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. -Totie Fields

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. -Jonathan Swift

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. -Gustave Flaubert

You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken. -Paula Deen

I'm an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window. -Kelly Osbourne

Boyfriend and girlfriend quotes

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. -Mitch Hedberg

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend. -Taylor Swift

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend. -Jack Nicholson

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too. -Vanessa Hudgens

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends. -Orlando Bloom

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend. -Christina Aguilera

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde. -Hugh Hefner

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends. -Madonna Ciccone

It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends. -Carrot Top

I love having a boyfriend but need to be secure on my own first. -Demi Lovato

My career is my girlfriend. -Aaron Carter

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl. -Amy Winehouse

What is the Curia Romana?

   The Curia Romana is the central body of officials that aids the Pope in governing the Roman Catholic Church. The Curia is made up of 9 congregations, 5 secretariats, 3 tribunals, and 6 offices. Cardinals hold major posts and lesser officials provide advice and assistance. The congregations oversee worship, doctrine, and morals and supervise the clergy. Matrimonial cases and questions of conscience and canon law are settled by the tribunals, or courts. The officers include the secretariat of state to handle public, or foreign, affairs and standing committees to write papal bulls, or letters, and administer Church property.

Cupid legend

   In Roman mythology, Cupid is the god of love and son of Venus. He is identified with the Greek god Eros. In some accounts, Cupid is a handsome youth, while other sources describe him as a mischievous child. He is often represented as a winged archer and sometimes as blindfolded to signify that love is blind. Gods or mortals wounded by his arrows fell helplessly in love, as, for example, Apollo with Daphne, and Dido with Aeneas.
   The most famous legend about Cupid is probably the Cupid and Psyche myth narrated in Apuleius' The Golden Ass (2d century A.D.). According to this tale, Venus commanded Cupid to punish a mortal princess, Psyche, because she was so beautiful that men honored her instead of the goddess. However, when Cupid saw Psyche, he fell in love with her. He then made himself invisible and ordered her never to try to see him. When Psyche eventually disobeyed him, he left
her in anger. After much suffering and searching for him, Psyche was forgiven, granted immortality by Jupiter, and united with Cupid forever. This myth symbolizes the union of Love and Soul, for Cupid is the god of love and psyche is the Greek word for "soul."

What is curare?

   Curare is any of various poisons prepared from the leaves, roots, and bark of several South American plants. Crude curare is a gummy brown substance that was once widely used as an arrow poison by the Indians of Brazil, Ecuador, and British Guiana.
   Curare contains several poisonous substances that prevent the nerves from sending impulses to the muscles of the body, thus causing paralysis. Since the muscles that control the lungs are affected by curare, the drug may cause death by suffocation.
   In medicine very small amounts of highly purified curare are used during surgery to relax the muscles. The drug is also used in the treatment of certain muscular diseases.

William Shakespeare quotes

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator. The Rape of Lucrece.

A horse! A horse!
My kingdom for a horse! Richard, Act V, scene iv.

The course of true love never did run smooth.
Lysander, Act I, scene i. A Midsummer Night's Dream

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. Caesar, Act II, scene ii. Julius Caesar

To be or not to be, that is the question.
Hamlet, Act III, scene i.

Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.
Othello, Act V, scene ii.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
King Lear, Act I, scene iv.

Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Macbeth, Act I, scene iii.

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?
Macbeth, Act II, scene i.

10 quotes about America

1 A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. ~Bill Vaughan

2 Not merely a nation but a nation of nations. ~Lyndon B. Johnson

3 In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. ~Peter Alexander Ustinov

4 May I never wake up from the American dream. ~Carrie Latet

5 America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas. ~John Burton Brimer

6 Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. ~Alexis de Tocqueville

7 We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. ~Bill Maher

8 The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. ~William Ralph

9 America is a mistake, a giant mistake. ~Sigmund Freud

10 The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. ~Woodrow Wilson

!0 quotes about sucess

1 "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ― Winston Churchill

2 "Never was anything great achieved without danger." ― Niccolò Machiavelli

3 "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." ― Truman Capote

4 "I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down." ― Abraham Lincoln

5 "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. " ― Mark Twain

6 "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." ― Herman Melville

7 "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." ― Michael Jordan

8 "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment" ― Oprah Winfrey

9 "Men are born to succeed, not to fail." ― Henry David Thoreau

10 "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." ― Dale Carnegie

What is a feather?

   A feather is a plumed quill that grows as an appendage from the skin of a bird. Most birds have many feathers that cover their bodies. The feathers of a bird are called its plumage.
   A feather consists of a central shaft with a web on each side. The shaft is stiff and hard but somewhat flexible. It emerges from the skin just as a hair does. The web is composed of a row of regularly arranged fibers, called barbs. On most feathers the web is longer on one side of the shaft than on the other. The webs of some feathers are soft and fluffy, and those of others are stiffer.
   The structure of a feather is similar in some ways to that of a scale of a fish, despite their apparent differences. Zoologists think that the feather may have evolved from some scale like appendage possessed by an ancestor of the bird.

What is fear?

   Fear, along with love and anger, is one of the three basic emotions. Like the other emotions, fear affects the way our bodies function. Among other reactions, we breathe faster, our hearts beat faster, and our digestion slows down or stops.
   Fear is caused by a threat to our security. We recognize fear as a painful feeling of threatening evil, or trouble, or danger. Sometimes the threat is real, but sometimes it is imagined. When fear and anxiety without cause overwhelm a person, he is said to be emotionally ill.
    Fear first occurs in an infant's life when he is physically hurt, when he is too strongly stimulated, or when something unexpected, such as falling, happens to him. Later the child reacts with fear to such situations as hunger, long or unexplained absences of his parents, strange people, and strange animals. Basically we are frightened by that which we know will hurt us, that which stimulates our sense organs too intensely, and that which is too strange for us to comprehend or predict.

10 quotes about loneliness

1. I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone. Audrey Hepburn

2. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. Wayne Dyer

3. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau

4. Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich

5. All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal

6. We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. Tennessee Williams

7. To live alone is the fate of all great souls. Arthur Schopenhauer

8. I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. Frida Kahlo

9. As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone. Sienna Miller

10. Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. Octavio Paz

10 quotes about jealousy

1. Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. Arthur Keith

2. Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet. Hesiod

3. Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious. Philip Seymour Hoffman

4. Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. Germaine Greer

5. I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do. Adriana Lima

6. I was always jealous of something getting more attention. Robyn Hitchcock

7. The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. William Penn

8. Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. Thomas Jefferson

9. You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. Gary Allan

10. Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something. Dennis Prager

Famous money quotes

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." ― Dorothy Parker

"While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery." ― Groucho Marx

"Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like." ― Will Rogers

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." ― Epictetus

"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor." ― Oscar Wilde

"You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it." ― Tennessee Williams

"There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money." ― Sophocles, Antigone

"Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math." ― Ambrose Bierce

"Money doesn't talk, it swears." ― Bob Dylan

"Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money." ― Voltaire

"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing." ― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.—Albert Camus

"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."—Jonathan Swift

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."—J. Paul Getty

Lunisolar precession

   Lunisolar precession is the apparent change in the location of the stars in relation to the observers on Earth. It is caused by the pull of gravity of the Sun and the Moon on the Earth
   Actually, the Earth's axis is almost fixed at an angle of 23½ degrees to the plane of its equator. But the gravitational effect of the Sun and Moon (sometimes supplementing, sometimes counteracting each other) causes the axis of the spinning Earth to wobble slightly, as in the motion of a spinning top. The result is that the stars used as reference points (such as the North star or the constellations) seem to move slowly westward, completing a cycle in about 26,000 years.

Feast of Lanterns

FEAST OF LANTERNS, a part of the New Year festival formerly celebrated in China. It was celebrated at the end of the New Year festivities, on the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese year. The highlights of the festival were the great street processions of people dressed in costumes to represent persons in the ancient historical events of China. Dragon costumes and paper lanterns, hung on doors and placed on graves, were features of the celebration.

What is lye?

   Lye is a term used for a type of very strong alkali. Its chemical name is sodium hydroxide. Lye as a chemical has many uses. Its white powder destroys waste by its ability to eat organic material. It is used in the making of hard soap and textiles, in tanning LEATHER, in refining petroleum, and in the canning industry.
   Lye is soluble in water and is a good conductor of electricity. It neutralizes acids and can turn litmus paper blue. It can dissolve wool but not cotton.
Lye is very injurious to skin, and actual contact with it must be avoided because of its caustic, or burning, nature.
   The chemical formula for lye is NaOH. Lye is manufactured from calcium hydroxide and sodium carbonate reacting to form sodium hydroxide (lye) and calcium carbonate.

Lutetium (metal)

   Lutetium, element number 71, is the last metal in the lanthanide series of rate-earth elements. It is like lanthanum and the other lanthanides in that its compounds are colorless and not magnetic. Lutetium was named after the Roman name of Paris, France.
   The lanthanide elements have properties remarkably alike. The similarity occurs because each element has two electrons in the outermost shell. Because of the great similarity in chemical properties, it is difficult to isolate one rare earth like lutetium from the others.
   Lutetium (symbol Lu) was first separated from ytterbium in 1907. It has an atomic weight of 174.97 (174.99, O=16). It is sometimes spelled lutecium.

What are Lupines?

   Lupines are flowering plants belonging to the legume or pea family. The flowers look something like sweet peas. Many flowers grow on long stems. They may be blue, yellow, white, or rose, and they blossom in May or June. The plants usually grow from three to five feet tall. Some varieties, growing from four to eight feet tall, can be trained to grow on sunny walls or trellises. One variety of lupine is a tree.
   Lupine is from the Latin word Lupinus meaning "wolf." These plants were thought to need a great deal of food. Lupines have deep roots. Seed should be planted in sandy, moist soil.

Marie Curie 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.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

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

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

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

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

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

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

John Travolta quotes

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He's always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I'm a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.

Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.

Gabriel: (Swordfish):
"Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes."

Tony Manero (Saturday Night Fever):
"Will you just watch the hair?"

Adam Lawrence (Perfect):
"Always treat a famous person as if they're not. And a person who's not as if they were."

Winston Churchill quotes

• There is no such thing as a good tax.
• The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.
• A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
• If you are going to go through hell, keep going.
• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
• The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
• The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
• Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.
• Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
• It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Leaf-Cutter Bee

   The leaf-cutter bee is one of the large bees of the genus Megachile, of which a common species in the United States is M. cetuncularis. It is a thick-bodied bee with a large square head, stout scissors-like jaws and with thick mass of dense hairs on the under side of the tail for the purpose of carrying pollen. The leaf-cutter bees make their nests in the hollow stems of elder-bushes, or, nowadays, often in crevices about buildings, and form their cells of round pieces which they cut out of tender leaves of any sorts of trees and bushes, especially the rose. Many cells are made, each containing an egg and store of pollen, and the whole economy of the group is very interesting. There are any species of leaf-cutter bees in various parts of the world.

Fleas

   Flea is any of a large group of small wingless insects that feed on the blood of many warm-blooded animals, including man. Fleas are common throughout the world. but they are particularly numerous in tropical regions. In additíon to being annoying pests, some fleas can transmit disease.

   The typical flea is usually less than one-eighth of an inch long. Its smooth body is covered with a hard outer skeleton, and extending along the back are several rows of backward-pointing bristles and spines. Unlike the bodies of most insects, the flea's body is flattened from side to side, enabling it to move easily and quickly through hair or feathers. Fleas can leap long distances because of their strong slender legs. Some fleas, for example, can jump higher than 7 inches and farther than 13 inches.

Coral reefs in danger

   Coral reefs are living organisms made up of tiny creatures known as polyps. The reefs have built up over the centuries by the accumulation of limestone secretions from the polyps, which are rather like sea anemones and live in partnership with microscopic plants. But by 1980, the coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean had come under serious threat. They were being steadily eaten by crown-of-thorns starfish in numbers reaching plague proportions.
   This starfish grows up to 2ft (610 mm) across and can have up to 21 arms, each covered with the poison-tipped spines that give the creature its name. It eats by extruding its stomach through its mouth and enveloping the coral. Strong digestive juices then dissolve the soft-bodied polyps.

Michael Jordan quotes

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen."

"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the cosequences you always think of negative result."

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

"To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate."

"To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail."

"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."

"I've never lost a game I just ran out of time."

"If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life."

"I never thought a role model should be negative."

Antonio Banderas quotes

I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.

I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.

It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

Films should be for everybody.

Bless me, Father, for I have just killed quite a few men. (Desperado)

My name would become legend... (Puss in Boots)

Al Pacino quotes

"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie."

"You'll never be alone if you've got a book."

"Vanity is my favourite sin."

"I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx."

"I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools."

"I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go."

"Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'"

"My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness."

"I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one."

"The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers."

"All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy."

"Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in." The Godfather, Part III
"Say hello to my little friend." Scarface

"You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is." Glengarry Glen Ross

The Lost Continent

   More than 2,000 years ago Plato, a famous Greek philosopher, wrote about a continent that he called "Atlantis." This continent, he said, had been west of the Pillars of Hercules, the gateway into the Mediterranean Sea. Its people had been highly civilized. But, a great earthquake had made this continent sink below the sea 9,000 years before Plato's time.
   Probably Plato did not expect anyone to believe in Atlantis. But many people thought the story was true. Some people still believe in this lost continent. Whole books have been written about it.
Changes are, of course, always taking place in the earth's surface. Small islands have appeared and disappeared. Volcanic eruptions build up new mountains and tear the tops off old ones. Coast lines change.
   Earthquakes are fairly common. But scientists have not been able to discover that any large amount of land has sunk below the sea in the past 100,000 years.
   There are some signs that there was once a large island in the Atlantic where the small Azores are now. But this island, if there ever was one, disappeared 10 or 15 million years ago. That was long before there were any people living on the earth. Plato's lost continent, scientists are sure, was just a story.
   There have been other stories like it. Less than 300 years ago, for instance, a sea captain brought to Scotland some people he said he had rescued from a wicked magician on an island west of Ireland. The island he called Hi-Brazil. The story was foolish, but for more than 100 years after that, Hi-Brazil was put on maps.

Conifers

At Christmas time conifers play a big part in our celebrations. For our Christmas trees are conifers.
"Conifer" means "cone-bearer." Most conifers produce their seeds in cones. A few have berry like fruits instead.
   Scattered over the world are hundreds of kinds of conifers. Not all of them are trees. Some junipers, for instance, are bushes which grow close to the ground. But most conifers are trees. Among them are the giants of the plant world—the red-woods and the big trees, or sequoias. Among them, too, are many of our most important timber trees.
   Most conifers are evergreens and do not drop their leaves when winter comes as elms and maples do. But some conifers do lose their leaves in the fall. The larches and the bald cypresses, for example, are conifers, but they are not evergreens.
   Some conifer leaves are scalelike and lap over one another. Others are so narrow they are called needles. The needles of different conifers are not alike. Some are short; others are long. Some are four-sided; others are flat. Some grow in bunches of two or more; others are not bunched. There are differences in color, too.
   The evergreen conifers do not keep the same leaves all their lives. They keep losing old leaves a few at a time instead of losing all of them at one time in the fall.
   Great conifer forests once covered a large part of the United States. Millions of trees have been cut for lumber. Millions more have been killed by forest fires. One of America's problems now is how to keep her conifer forests from disappearing.

Concrete

   Many great dams are made of concrete. Thousands of miles of roads and sidewalks are made of concrete. There are concrete floors and foundations in many buildings. Concrete is one of our most important building materials.
   Cement, water, sand, and crushed rock or gravel are mixed together to make ordinary concrete. Usually big machines do the mixing. The rock "batter" is then poured into wood or steel molds which give the concrete the shape wanted. When the concrete hardens, the mold can be taken away. A concrete wall or walk or dam can be made in much less time than it would take to build it of blocks of stone.
   Concrete can also be made into blocks and then built into buildings. Many small houses are made of concrete blocks.
   There are special kinds of concrete for special uses. Sometimes steel rods are run through it. Then it is called reinforced concrete. Concrete floors may have asphalt added so that they will be more comfortable to stand on. For lightweight concrete, rock materials lighter than sand and gravel are used. Pumice, a very light rock formed from lava, is one. Vermiculite is another. Vermiculite concrete may weigh only one-eighth as much as concrete mad,e with sand and gravel.
   Concrete is strong, and it lasts well. It will not burn. Termites and borers cannot eat it. And concrete is cheap, compared to many other materials. No wonder it is popular.

Love Quotes by Famous Scientists

Scientist Love quotes

1. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein
2. Love is physics and chemistry. Severo Ochoa
3. Love is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein
4. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm
5. For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagan
6. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal
7. Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Blaise Pascal
8. When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. Blaise Pascal
9. Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal
10. TO LOVE is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
11. The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. Alexis Carrel 
12. If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. Benjamin Franklin
13. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm 

14 quotes about Art

1. Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. —Gustave Flaubert
2. Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. —Frank Lloyd Wright
3. Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. —Harry S. Truman
4. A great artist is always before his time or behind it. —George Edward Moore
5. Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. —Al Capp
6. So vast is art, so narrow human wit. —Alexander Pope
7. True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. —Albert Einstein
8. The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. —Abraham Lincoln
9. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. —Oscar Wilde
10. In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. —Salvador Dali
12. Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. —Edgar Degas
13. In art the best is good enough. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
14. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. —Michelangelo

Quotes from Stephen Hawking

1. "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
2. "Quiet people have the loudest minds."
3. "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. "
4. "Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
5. "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
6. "My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."
7. "It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist."
8. "Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."
9. "To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
10. "Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free."
11. "I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space."
12. " You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it."
13. "Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end."

Dalai Lama quotes

1. The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.
2. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
3. Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
4. It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act.
5. An open heart is an open mind.
6. If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
7. Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
8. Someone else's action should not determine your response.
9. The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.
10. Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.
11. Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day.
12. Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
13. My religion is kindness.
14. The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
15. The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.
16. Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance.
17. When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

Fidel Castro quotes

1. Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
2. A revolution is not a trail of roses.... A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.
3. I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
4. I am a Marxist-Leninist, and I will be a Marxist-Leninist until the last days of my life.
5. We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
6. Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
7. They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
8. I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
9. North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
10. Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
11. Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

16 Picasso quotes

1. It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
2. Youth has no age.
3. The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
4. If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
5. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
6. To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.
7. I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
8. I do not seek. I find.
9. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
10. There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.
11. Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
12. The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
13. It takes a very long time to become young.
14. Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
15. The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
16. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Whta is a heat shield?

   Heat shield is a covering on a spacecraft or a rocket nose cone. It protects astronauts and instruments from the intense heat produced during high-speed flights through the atmosphere. Such heating occurs when a spacecraft descends from an earth orbit. Atoms and molecules of air generate heat by friction against the surface of the craft. The greater the craft's velocity, the more intense the heat. Common types of heat shields are heat sinks and ablation shields. Heat sinks absorb great amounts of heat, thus preventing heat from reaching delicate parts of the spacecraft. Ablation shields use up heat by melting and vaporizing. The air stream carries the molten particles and hot gas vapor away from the craft.

What is Harvest Moon?

   Harvest Moon is the name given to the full moon that occurs nearest the autumnal equinox of the sun, about September 23. The moon rises at about the same time for several nights. It shines with such brightness that farmers in northern Europe and Canada can work until late at night to take in the fall harvest. In the Southern Hemisphere, the harvest moon occurs in March, at the vernal equinox.

Hartebeest

   Hartebeest is a large African antelope. Its shoulders are much higher than its hind-quarters, so the animal's back slopes to the rear. A hartebeest has a long, sad-looking face. Its ears are quite large. Its horns curve backward or outward, then forward and upward, and finally bend sharply backward and upward. Its tail looks like a cow's.
   Many different kinds of hartebeests are known. The Cape hartebeest grows from 4 to 5 feet high and has a reddish-brown coat with a white rump patch. It runs rapidly, despite its awkward appearance, and can easily outdistance a horse. It travels in herds of 15 to 50 animals. Once found throughout the open, grassy plains of South Africa, the hartebeest is now scarce.
   Scientific Classification. Hartebeests are in the bovid family, Bovidae. Cape hartebeests are genus Alcelaphus, species A, caama,

Prune (cut back)

   When parts of a plant are cut off for the purpose of improving the plant, this process is called pruning. Pruning of the stem, branches, shoots, or roots benefits the plant by improving the shape or increasing the size of the flowers and fruits. Plants may be pruned by natural means, such as wind, ice, snow, shade, and overloads of fruit. The pruned plant is smaller after pruning, but because of the pruning it becomes stronger and larger. The branches should be cut close and clean, and large cuts should be covered with a protective paint or wax.
   Most deciduous trees require severe pruning for many years. If a tree has two main branches that form a sort of Y, there is a tendency for the tree to split when it gets older. The smaller branch should be removed, leaving only one main stem. Dead and diseased stems should always be removed. In spring-blooming shrubs and trees, the pruning should take place immediately after flowering. In late blooming shrubs and trees, pruning should be done only in the winter or very early spring. Hedges are pruned or sheared to keep them compact.
   Annuals and perennials are pruned by removing all but the strongest stems, or by pinching back the tops.

Progesterone

   Certain organic chemicals called hormones are necessary for the body to carry on its functions. Progesterone is one of the hormones that regulates the reproductive processes of the female. It circulates in the blood stream.
   Progesterone is produced by the corpus luteum, a tissue of the ovary which develops after ovulation. Under the influence of progesterone, the lining of the uterus becomes highly developed and prepared to receive a fertilized egg. The continuous production of progesterone during pregnancy keeps the uterus in the proper condition for the development of the fetus or child.

What is Pregnancy?

   Pregnancy is the period during which a baby is contained in its mother's uterus, or womb, before it is born. Human pregnancy lasts about nine months; during this time the baby grows from a tiny fertilized egg to a baby of about seven pounds.
   First signs of pregnancy are cessation of menstruation, enlargement of the breast, and other bodily changes, and sometimes a kind of nausea called "morning sickness."
   Pregnancy begins at conception when the sperm fertilizes the ovum. The fertilized ovum sends out little threadlike villi which attach themselves to the wall of the uterus and grow to become the fetal portion of the placenta. The placenta is a special structure of glands and blood vessels through which the baby receives nourishment.
   By the end of the fourth month, the mother feels "signs of life," the restless movements of the baby, or fetus, and the doctor can distinguish the fetal heartbeat.
   Pregnancy ends with labor, the process by which the baby is expelled from the uterus and given birth to or born.

Adolf Hitler quotes

1. If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
2. If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
3. Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you're insulting yourself.
4. The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.
5. The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.
6. Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
7. I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
8. The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
9. Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
10. I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature.
11. Great liars are also great magicians.
12. What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
13. The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.
14. It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Great Motivational quotes

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

1. If you can dream it, you can do it. —Walt Disney
2. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. —Albert Einstein
3. Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. —Leo Buscaglia
4. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. —Wayne Dyer 
5. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. —Eleanor Roosevelt 
6. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. —C. S. Lewis
7. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas —A. Edison
8. If you're going through hell, keep going. —Winston Churchill
9. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. —Og Mandino
10. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. —William James
11. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. —Mark Twain
12. In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. —Nikos Kazantzakis
13. The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. —Confucius 
14. Quality is not an act, it is a habit. —Aristotle
15. What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. —Ralph Marston
16. The most effective way to do it, is to do it. —Amelia Earhart
17. Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. —Julie Andrews

11 quotes from Pope John Paul II

Interesting quotes by Pope John Paul II

1. The future starts today, not tomorrow.
2. As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
3. Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
4. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
5. Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
6. Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
7. Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
8. Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
9. Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
10. I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
11. Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Harmonica

   Harmonica is the name given to two simple musical instruments. The best known of these is the mouth organ. In this instrument, metal reeds are inside a case. The edge of the case has separate blowholes for each reed. The instrument is played either by blowing or sucking the air through these holes. The mouth organ is easy to play and is popular in the home.
   The second type of harmonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin. He is said to have used the idea of an Irishman named Pockrich. Franklin's instrument was a series of bowl-shaped glasses arranged on a spindle. The spindle was turned, and the rims of the glasses were moistened in a trough below. Music was made by rubbing the wet rims with the finger.
   Marianna Kirchgessner, a blind performer, made the harmonica popular in Europe in the late 1700's. Mozart composed a quintet for the glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola and violoncello.

Houseboat

   Houseboat is any kind of floating home. In the United States and Canada, houseboats are used mainly for pleasure, although some persons use them as homes. People own or rent houseboats on lakes and rivers.
   Houseboats vary in length from 24 to 32 feet, but some are more than 50 feet long. The hull can be made of several materials, including plywood, fiber-glassed plywood, aluminum, steel, or a combination of aluminum and steel. Most houseboats are small and simply furnished. But some have several rooms, with all the conveniences of the modern home, including a stove, refrigerator, running water, hot-water heater, and electric lights.
   Most houseboats must be towed from place to place. But many modern houseboats are designed to remain in the water all year. A houseboat may have retractable wheels, and also serve as a house trailer. Many houseboats have engines. They have a maximum speed of about 12 miles an hour.
   In other regions of the world, houseboats provide homes for many persons. In parts of China, thousands of people live on river boats all their lives. They buy their supplies from floating stores.
   During World War II, houseboats were used at navy bases in the Pacific Islands.

What is a Harlequin?

   Harlequin is a character in pantomime and comedy, who capers and acts like a clown. He wears a tight-fitting costume covered with diamond-shaped patches of bright colors. The part began in Italian comedy of the 1500's. In Italian drama, the character is called Arlecchino.

What is harmonics?

   Harmonics refers to the complete set of sounds produced by a musical note. Every musical tone consists of a blend of the note sounded and higher tones related to it. The actual note sounded is called the fundamental. The other tones are called its overtones. A fundamental and its overtones always harmonize (blend well together).
   The vibrations of a string or of an air column produce musical sounds. For example, when a note is played on a piano, the entire string vibrates to produce the fundamental. But it also vibrates in separate sections called partials. Each half of the string vibrates separately, each third vibrates separately, and so on. These separate vibrations produce tones of a higher pitch than the fundamental. They move in a regular series. The separate vibration in two equal parts produces the octave, a note that is eight notes higher than the fundamental. The vibration of three equal parts produces the dominant, a fifth above the octave. The vibrating string may divide many times, but each division makes the overtone softer.
   Instruments and voices differ in quality and loudness, largely because of the number and distribution of the overtones they produce. The human voice is richer in overtones than most instruments.
   Loud instruments produce the higher harmonics. The tone quality is soft and flutelike when the fundamental tone and the lower harmonics are present. A combination of tones up to the sixth harmonic makes a rich, full sound.

11 Bill Clinton quotes

1. People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...
2. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
3. I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.
4. Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
5. We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
6. Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
7. A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
8. I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
9. Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
10. Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
11. In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

11 Mahatma Gandhi quotes

1. You must be the change you want to see in the world.
2. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
3. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
4. Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
5. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
6. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
7. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
8. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
9. I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
10. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
11. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

12 Oscar Wilde quotes

1. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
2. Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
3. One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
4. Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
5. I am not young enough to know everything.
6. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
7. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
8. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
9. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
10. When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
11. Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.
12. I can resist anything but temptation.

What is a fireplace?

   The fireplace is a partially enclosed structure of stone, brick, or steel in which wood or coal is burned for heating and cooking and, in modern times, for aesthetic reasons. Burning fuel in a fireplace is a wasteful method of producing heat, but because of the beauty of the flames and glowing coals and because of the significance attached to the fireplace as the center of the home, fireplaces are still built.
   Benjamin Franklin and Count Rumford were the first two persons to study scientifically the movements of air in the fireplace. They found that a fireplace that really draws must not be just an extension downward of a flue but must have a smoke chamber, a smoke shelf, and a throat to keep downdrafts from blowing smoke back into the room. They also discovered that there is a definite ratio, 1:7, between the opening of the fireplace and the area of the flue.

Firefly

   The firefly is a beetle of the class Insecta that emits a flashing greenish or yellowish light from the underside of its abdomen. The firefly's light is not accompanied by heat. Fireflies, also called lightning bugs, have small, slender, soft, yellow-and-black bodies.
   The light results when two chemicals manufactured by the firefly are combined. One chemical, called luciferin, is activated by another, an enzyme called luciferase. Zoologists think that the purpose of the adult firefly's light is to enable males and females to locate each other in the dark. Not only adults but also the wormlike larvae and sometimes even the eggs can emit light.
The females of  some European fireflies are wingless.They resemble the wormlike larvae in appearance and give off more light that the males. They are often known as glowworms. Fireflies fly at night and remain hidden during the day. Tropical fireflies of Mexico, the West Indies, and South America are larger than those of the temperate regions.

Pomes

   Pomes are a type of fruit. They are often good to eat and provide one with vitamins and minerals needed for good nutrition. The apple, pear, quince and hawthorne are pomes.
   The fleshy part which surrounds a core is the part of pomes that is eaten. The core is a compound of several carpels that have grown together. The carpel is the place where seeds develop. These fruits usually have many seeds. The seeds of pomes are sometimes called pips.

What are Polyps?

   Polyps are coelenterates of the class Anthozoa. They are also the attached forms of some coelenterates which have two forms. They are cylindrical, attached at one end, and have a mouth at the other end.

Mother Teresa quotes

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

10 Charles Chapin quotes

1. Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
2. This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
3. I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
4. Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
5. Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
6. We think too much and feel too little.
7. All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
8. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
9. I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.
10. If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

10 Che Guevara quotes

1. Hasta la Victoria Siempre. [Until Victory, Always]
2. Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
3. I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
4. Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
5. Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
6. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
7. I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
8. The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
9. If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
10. I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

Polymer

   Molecules of the same kind can be chemically joined together to form a single larger molecule. The new, heavier molecule is made up of the same elements in the same proportions. Its molecular weight is a multiple of the original molecule. This new molecule is called a "polymer."

Pomegranate

   The pomegranate tree has been known to man for thousands of years. It is a tree or tall shrub that grows only in tropical or semitropical lands. In the United States it grows best in southern areas.
   Small clusters of reddish-orange flowers bloom in the spring and are followed by a reddish or deep yellow fruit called pomegranate. This fruit is the size of a large orange. The outside covering, or rind, of the pomegranate is hard, but inside this sectioned fruit are many seeds surrounded by juicy pulp.

What is Polonium?

   Polonium is a chemical element. It is radioactive, like uranium and radium. Its symbol is Po and its atomic number is 84. The mass number of its most stable isotope is 210.
   Polonium was discovered by Madame Curie in 1898. She named it after her native land, Poland.    Madame Curie discovered polonium in some samples of uranium she had obtained from pitchblende.
   Polonium is mainly used to produce neutron sources. It is also used in spark plugs and in devices to eliminate static.
   Polonium is not found in a natural, simple state. It is found in all uranium minerals, and can be obtained by separating it from uranium residues. It can be produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons.

What is Pneumonia?

   Pneumonia is a disease that affects the lungs and causes hard coughing, high fever, chest pain, and difficult breathing. There are several kinds of pneumonia and many causes for it.
   With lobar pneumonia an entire lobe of the lung is inflamed. In lobular pneumonia only parts of the lobe are involved. With bronchial pneumonia the bronchi are infected.
   Pneumonia may be caused by a virus, or by various types of bacteria, the most common of which is the Pneumococcus. The breathing in of gases and chemicals can cause forms of the disease. Oil in the lungs causes lipoid pneumonia. Such diseases as tuberculosis, bubonic plague, or tularemia may involve varieties of pneumonia.
   The first signs of the disease are weakness, chills, repeated coughing, often with a rising fever. The person may cough up blood-tinged mucous. Fever and other symptoms may continue for a week or more. The crisis or period of highest temperature may, under proper treatment, be followed abruptly by a fall in fever, eased breathing, and gradual recovery of strength. Severely weakened people and very old people may die of pneumonia despite the best treatment.
   The best protection against pneumonia is a healthy body to ward off infection. Proper care during and following illness includes bed rest, prompt administration of antibiotics, and care during convalescence. Poorly-ventilated, overheated rooms and crowds in raw, wet seasons may foster pneumonias as they do the common cold.
   Treatment depends upon the type of pneumonia. Penicillin, streptomycin, and sulfa drugs combat bacterial types but do not affect the viral types.
   In pneumonias caused by tuberculosis, rheumatic fever and other systemic diseases, the offending disease should first be treated. Likewise, treatment of noninfective pneumonias with chemical, allergic, or physical causes should begin with removal of the causative factor. In pneumonias, oxygen is frequently administered to aid respiration.
   Infective varieties may be contagious and, therefore, quarantine measures are prescribed. All animals seem to be susceptible to pneumonia.

Poinciana trees

   Poinciana trees are small, broad-topped trees with large, brightly colored flowers. They grow in the tropical areas of the world. They belong to the pea family.
   The royal poinciana is one of the most striking tropical trees. It grows 20 to 40 feet tall, spreading wide at its top. Its leaves are one to two feet long, each divided into many small leaflets. The five petals of the flower are orange or scarlet and have uneven edges. Ten stamens stand up from the petals. The seeds are contained in pods which are flat and from six inches to two feet long. This species is native to Madagascar but is cultivated in southern Florida and other warm areas where the colorful plant blooms mostly in the summer.
   The dwarf poinciana is a ten-foot shrub with prickly branches. It has delicate leaves and orange or yellow flowers, each two inches across. It is widely distributed throughout the tropics.

Congo River

   Africa has several great rivers. One is the Congo. The Congo River is one of the 10 longest rivers in the world. In places this big river is six miles wide. In other places it is narrow and flows through a deep gorge.
   The Congo starts not far from where the Nile River begins, but it flows in a different direction. The Nile flows 4,000 miles to the north, the Congo 3,000 miles to the west. The Congo empties into the Atlantic. On its way it crosses the equator twice.
   Most rivers as big as the Congo have built great deltas where they reach the sea.
   The Congo has no delta. As it enters the sea it flows too swiftly to drop mud.
   There are few cities on the banks of the Congo. Traveling down this vast river would not be at all like traveling down the Mississippi. These are some of the strange sights a traveler might see: hippopotamuses and crocodiles in the water; elephants in high grass near the banks; hot, gloomy forests with bright flowers, chattering monkeys, and screaming parrots; African natives catching fish with long spears; huts made of grass and palm leaves; the blazing sun hanging almost straight overhead at noon.
   In the Congo there are many falls and rapids which boats cannot pass. Railroads for passengers and freight have been built around some of them. Big ocean ships can sail about 100 miles up the river—up to the first falls. Above these falls small boats are used.
   Nearly 550 years ago a Portuguese explorer discovered the Congo. He gave it the name Poderoso, which means "the mighty." It is a good name for this great river.

10 Love Quotes

LOVE QUOTES

1. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― André Gide quote

2. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche quote

3. “We love the things we love for what they are.” ― Robert Frost quote

4. “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” ― Paulo Coelho quote

5. “Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.” ― Milan Kundera quote

6. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” ― Zelda Fitzgerald quote

7. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” ― Edgar Allan Poe quote

8. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” ― Robert Frost quote

9. “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” ― Bertrand Russell quote

10. “When love is not madness it is not love.” ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca quote

Paulo Coelho quotes

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”

“If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.”

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.”

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”

“Tears are words that need to be written.”

“Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”

“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”

15 Quotes about Strength

15 Strength Quotes

1. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche 
2. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ― Mahatma Gandhi 
3. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” ― J.K. Rowling 
4. “Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte 
5. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” ― Frederick Douglass 
6. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt 
7. “You feel your strength in the experience of pain.” ― Jim Morrison 
8. “In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ― Drew Barrymore 
9. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ― Maya Angelou 
10. “A quiet conscience makes one strong!” ― Anne Frank 
11. “Women are never so strong as after their defeat.” ― Alexandre Dumas 
12. “We acquire the strength we have overcome.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson 
13. “You are never strong enough that you don't need help.” ― César Chávez 
14. “Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.” ― Lao Tzu 
15. “Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.” ― G.K. Chesterton 

What is Damascus Steel?

   Damascus Steel was a tough steel containing molybdenum and having a characteristic wavy pattern on its surface that resembles watermarking. Damascened sword blades, famous for their cutting edges, were made during the Middle Ages at Damascus, Syria.
   The origin and method of making Damascus steel are not definitely known. It is thought, however, that alternate layers of steel and iron were hammered together into thin bars, bundled together, reheated, and forged again. The process was probably repeated until the steel and iron were thoroughly worked together.

Who was Saint Cyprian?

   Saint Cyprian was a Bishop of Carthage and martyr. Born Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus, at Carthage, in northern Africa, about 200 A.D. Died Carthage, Sept. 14, 258 A.D. Feast day, September 16.
   Cyprian helped to develop orthodox Christianity in the early Church. He was a pagan lawyer, orator, and teacher of rhetoric in Carthage until he was converted to Christianity. As bishop, he supported the return to the Church of repentant Christians who had denied their faith under Roman persecution. He joined Pope Cornelius in opposing Novatian, an antipope who claimed that persons who fell from grace could not be saved.
   In 257 A.D., Cyprian was exiled by the Emperor of Rome and a year later he was brought back and beheaded. When his sentence was read to him, he is said to have replied, "Thanks be to God." St. Cyprian is honored in the daily Mass of the Roman Catholic Church.

Cygnus (constellation)

   Also called the Swan, Cygnus, is a prominent constellation in the northern sky. Cygnus is one of the most easily identified constellations and includes the Northern Cross. Its brightest object is Deneb, also called Alpha Cygni. The upper portion of Cygnus is in the densest part of the Milky Way. This area is a powerful source of radio signals that are thought to come from a collision of galaxies beyond the Milky Way. The star called 61 Cygni was the first to have its distance from earth measured. Cygnus reaches its highest point in the sky in mid-September, when it is directly overhead at the latitude of New York city.

Cyclops (myth)

   Cyclops, in Greek mythology, a one-eyed giant. According to Homer's Odyssey the Cyclopes were shepherds of Sicily. Savage and cannibalistic, they devoured all who came to their land. When one of them, Polyphemus, was bunded by the crafty Odysseus, he begged his father, the sea-god Poseidon, for revenge. Poseidon then became Odysseus' enemy and tried to prevent his return home after the Trojan War.
   Another tradition tells of three Cyclopes, the children of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth), who were named Brontes, Steropes, and Arges. They assisted Zeus in his struggle against his father, Cronus, and gave him the thunderbolt as a weapon. However, when Zeus used a thunderbolt to kill Apollo's son Asclepius, Apollo killed the Cyclopes. According to still later myths the Cyclopes were the assistants of the fire god Hephaestus at his forges under Mount Etna in Sicily.

What is cyanide?

   Cyanide is a a compound containing the carbon-nitrogen, or cyano, radical combined with a metal or another radical. Cyanides are salts of hydrocyanic (prussic) acid. The name "cyanide" is most commonly used for two compounds, potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide.
   Most cyanides are poisonous, and some are used to kill insects and rodents. Calcium cyanide, for example, is an effective fumigant. Mixed with water, it gives off fumes of hydrocyanic acid that kill living cells by disrupting their oxidation processes.
   Sodium and potassium cyanide are used in the cyanide process of extracting gold and silver from their ores. A solution of either cyanide dissolves gold or silver from ores. The metals are then precipitated with zinc. In electroplating, cyanides help to distribute metal evenly on the article being plated. Cyanides are also used in making various pigments, including Prussian blue and Turnbull's blue. Organic cyanide compounds are called nitriles, and many are used in the manufacture of synthetic fibers and rubber.

Composers

   The story of our music of today begins with Johann Sebastian Bach. This great composer lived more than 250 years ago. Most of his music was written for the organ. Since Bach's time there have been many great composers. Some have written for one instrument, some for another. Some have written for whole orchestras. Some have written songs and operas instead of instrumental music.
   The work of a composer is difficult. It requires great skill and much practice. Anyone who wants to become a composer must thoroughly understand the techniques of music and how to use them to express happiness, sadness, excitement, contentment, and many other human feelings. He must try to get the listener to feel these moods through his music. He must know perfectly all the sounds that can be created by the different instruments of an orchestra. He must weld these different sounds together to form a work of art.

What is a Cloudburst?

   At times rain pours down so fast that it is as if an enormous bag full of water had burst open and spilled all its water at once. A rain of this kind is called a cloudburst.
   A cloud cannot really burst. A rain cloud has nothing on the outside to shut in its billions of droplets of water. But, even when the droplets become big drops, strong upward currents of air may keep them from falling. At last, however, the drops are too big and heavy to be held up. They fall with a rush, and we have a cloudburst.
   In a cloudburst enough rain to make a layer several inches deep on the ground may fall in a very short time. In Holt, Mo., for instance, 12 inches of rain fell in one hour on June 22, 1947. This is more rain than many parts of the world get in a year. And in Jefferson, Iowa, two-thirds of an inch fell in just one minute on July 10, 1955!

What is citizenship?

   The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale, is the story of a man accused of treason. At his trial he said that he hoped he would never hear the name of his country again. The judge gave him his wish. For 55 years he was not allowed to set foot in his country or hear any news of it. He was not a citizen of any country. As he was dying, homesick and friendless, he begged to be taken back to his native land.
   Most of us do not realize how important it is to be a citizen of a country. Every country helps its citizens in many ways. Back in the days of ancient Rome, a Roman's proudest boast was, "I am a Roman citizen." A country helps and protects its citizens even when they are in other lands.
   Different countries have different ways of deciding who is a citizen. Being born in a country may make a person a citizen of that country. Having parents who are both citizens of the same country may make a child a citizen of that country no matter where he is born. Many citizens of the United States are naturalized citizens. They are immigrants who came from other countries and decided that they wished to become American citizens. The laws of the United States tell the steps a person must take to become naturalized.
   Being a citizen of a country does not mean merely getting protection and help from its government. It also means that the citizen has duties to his country. He owes it to his country to obey its laws and to pay the taxes asked of him. He owes it to his country to fight for it if he is called on to do so.
   If his country is a democracy, a citizen should take part in its government. He should try to find out what his country's problems are. He should show what he thinks should be done by voting for those who stand for what he believes. He should do his share in helping to make his country one of which all its citizens can be proud.

Plastic surgery

   Plastic surgery is the branch of surgical medicine concerned with building up external tissues damaged as a result of burns or wounds, with restoring lost parts, or with repairing defects. It is done to improve both the appearance and functioning of the body.