J.D. Stark Quotes
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.
Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!
Real beauty is created when you are feeling good inside, whether that means being healthy, feeling confident or just wearing your favorite scent.
By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.
Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.
To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.
By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.
I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.
A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!
The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.
Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.
A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.
A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.
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Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.
Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.