Crystals Quotes - Page 13

• Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.

  Janet Fitch

  Stronger, Pieces, Emeralds

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• Love turns a heart to crystal...Much more valuable, but much more fragile.

  Neal Shusterman

  Heart, Valuable, Turns

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• The only thing that was sharper and that scarred more was the selfish actions of those you loved when they made it crystal clear that they cared more for themselves than they did for you. Especially when it was someone you trusted to always put you first.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Selfish, Firsts, Action

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• The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

  George Orwell

  Heart, Rooms, Eternity

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Girl, Fall, Eyelashes

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see

  Octavio Paz

  Eye, Water, Perception

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• Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to accomplish the most complicated and delicate of tasks. Many organic chemists viewing crystal structures of enzyme systems or nucleic acids and knowing the marvels of specificity of the immune systems must dream of designing and synthesizing simpler organic compounds that imitate working features of these naturally occurring compounds.

  Donald Cram

  Dream, Science, Knowing

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• Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in your crystal clarity, for the first time in your original freshness. For the first time your real face is encountered. Mind is not there - the divider. Now existence appears as one. Mind has dropped; the barrier between you and existence is no more. Now you can look at existence with no mind. This is how a sage is born. With the mind - the world. With no mind - freedom, MOKSHA, KAIVALYA, NIRVANA. Cessation of the mind is cessation of the world.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Mind Freedom, Looks

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• The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But not until recently has it been recognized that in living organisms, as in the realm of crystals, chemical differences parallel the variation in structure.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Science, Animal, Differences

  Karl Landsteiner (2013). “The Specificity of Serological Reactions”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than seven-times-seven types of ambiguity in science, awaiting analysis. The poetry of Wallace Stevens is crystal-clear alongside the genetic code.

  Lewis Thomas

  Nature, Teaching, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Life And Love, Block

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.140, Penguin

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• By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!

  William Wordsworth

  White, Snow, Rams

  William Wordsworth (1814). “The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem”, p.407

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• Newt Gingrich plans to announce his campaign for president this Wednesday. I don’t know about his chances. I mean, I’m not saying Gingrich peaked in the ‘90s, but his campaign is being sponsored by Tamagotchis and Crystal Pepsi.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Mean, President, Pepsi

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• Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.

  Zig Ziglar

  Kids, Example, Lectures

  Zig Ziglar (1989). “Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World”, Ballantine Books

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• When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul.

  Radhanath Swami

  Yoga, Discipline, Water

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• you saw her fair, none else being by,
  Herself pois'd with herself in either eye;
  But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
  Your lady's love against some other maid
  That I will show you shining at this feast,
  And she shall scant show well that now seems best.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Shining, Maids

  William Shakespeare (1793). “King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet”, p.354

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• I used to think most Democrats in Congress who voted for [ObamaCare] really believed they were doing something good for the poor and the middle class. Now I wonder. It's crystal clear that just about everything President Barack Obama promised about his health plan was false, his deception deliberate. If Democrats really cared for the people harmed by the law, you'd think they'd admit their mistake, try to fix it. They haven't.

  Jack Kelly

  Mistake, Thinking, Law

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• It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

  John Burroughs

  Winter, Fire, Air

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.14

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• In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing some camphor, portions of which had been caused to condense in very beautiful crystals on the illuminated side, I was induced to read everything I could obtain respecting the chemical and mechanical influences of light, adhesion, and capillary attraction.

  John William Draper

  Beautiful, Nature, Strong

  John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub

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• You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

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• Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.

  Isak Dinesen

  Errors, Humanity, Balance

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• When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all thoughts in their infinite variety are utterly without substance.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Fall, Color, Light

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• The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

  Robert Musil

  Fall, Learning, Pockets

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.535, Pan Macmillan

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• What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Rocks, Light, Form

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.18, Penguin

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• To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Clouds, Weather, Two

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2012, Delphi Classics

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