“If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?”
― T.H. White, quote from The Candle in the Wind
“Lancelot and Guenever were sitting at the solar window. An observer of the present day, who knew the Arthurian legend only from Tennyson and people of that sort, would have been startled to see that the famous lovers were past their prime. We, who have learned to base our interpretation of love on the conventional boy-and-girl romance of Romeo and Juliet, would be amazed if we could step back into the Middle Ages - when the poet of chivalry could write about Man that he had 'en ciel un dieu, par terre une deesse'. Lovers were not recruited then among the juveniles and adolescents: they were seasoned people, who knew what they were about. In those days people loved each other for their lives, without the conveniences of the divorce court and the psychiatrist. They had a God in heaven and a goddess on earth - and, since people who devote themselves to godesses must exercise some caution about the ones to whom they are devoted, they neither chose them by the passing standards of the flesh alone, nor abandoned it lightly when the bruckle thing began to fail.”
― T.H. White, quote from The Candle in the Wind
“Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.”
― T.H. White, quote from The Candle in the Wind
“Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza, and Conscription.”
― T.H. White, quote from The Candle in the Wind
“He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that.”
― T.H. White, quote from The Candle in the Wind
“Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.”
― T.H. White, quote from The Candle in the Wind
T.H. White
Born place: in Bombay, India
Born date May 29, 1906
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“Let misery hide itself in silence, otherwise it becomes treason.”
― Victor Hugo, quote from The Man Who Laughs
“We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.”
― Jonathan Tropper, quote from This is Where I Leave You
“The differ-
ence between solids and liquids is, then, that in a solid the atoms are arranged in
some kind of an array, called a crystalline array, and they do not have a random
position at long distances; the position of the atoms on one side of the crystal
is determined by that of other atoms millions of atoms away on the other side of
the crystal. Figure 1-4 is an invented arrangement for ice, and although it con-
tains many of the correct features of ice, it is not the true arrangement. One of the
correct features is that there is a part of the symmetry that is hexagonal. You can
see that if we turn the picture around an axis by 120°, the picture returns to itself.
So there is a symmetry in the ice which accounts for the six-sided appearance of
snowflakes. Another thing we can see from Fig. 1-4 is why ice shrinks when it
melts. The particular crystal pattern of ice shown here has many "holes" in it,
as does the true ice structure. When the organization breaks down, these holes
can be occupied by molecules. Most simple substances, with the exception of
water and type metal, expand upon melting, because the atoms are closely packed
in the solid crystal and upon melting need more room to jiggle around, but an
open structure collapses, as in the case of water.”
― Richard Feynman, quote from The Feynman Lectures on Physics
“That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Warrior of the Light
“I knew why I was there and I didn’t. I was scared and I wasn’t. I didn’t feel right and I did. I didn’t know what to do but I still knew what I had to do. I wasn’t me. Yet I was.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
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