Abraham Pais Quotes

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

Abraham Pais

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: May 19, 1918 - August 4, 2000

Topics

WalkPeopleThinkThoughtForestGo

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

Joe Dante

Growing UpThoughtGrowingUpLast

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

Andrew Greeley

WarYearPresidentEuropeOwn

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

Andy Gibb

PeopleMeWritingNowMy OwnRight

What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.

Steve Bannon

GoodStoryYouWayRealizeOut

I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.

Tom Brokaw

TrustPeopleMeCuriosityChanges

But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.

Rose Schneiderman

TimeLawStrongDownKnowHand

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

Lorrie Fair

BestPracticeWorldChanceSoccer

First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.

Liya Kebede

StartFoundationYearFirstGoodwill

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Lord Byron

SnakeSelf-LoveOutAnythingStumble

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

Cherie Lunghi

WisdomAgePeopleMeYouthYou

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

Christina Ricci

YourselfYouSincereWhereWell

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

Brit Hume

SocietyYouFeelingsOffendedSee

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