Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.
Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business. . . Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.
the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.
Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.
Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.
When physiologists revealed the existence and functions of hormones they not only gave increased opportunities for the activities of biochemists but in particular gave a new charter to biochemical thought, and with the discovery of vitamins that charter was extended.
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
Love can't be forced into existence,(. . . )It won't come simply because you will it to happen
In love we listen. We listen to what others say. We listen to what our own being is telling us about the nature of existence.
There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.
We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.
Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.
How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking time to think?