(47 quotes found)
“The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.”
William Arthur Ward
“Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment”
Owen Felltham
“The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, "That is all there was!" But twist”
Victor Hugo
“Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.”
William Morris
“A cord of three strands is not quickly broken”
Bible
“Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
Chief Seattle
“What we have here is a hybrid of two molecules that are extremely sensitive to outside signals: single stranded DNA, which serves as the 'detector,' and a carbon nanotube, which functions as 'transmitter,' ... Put the two together and they become an extremely versatile type of sensor, capable of finding tiny amounts of a specific molecule.”
Charlie Johnson
“We had way too many opportunities that we didn't cash in on. We stranded runners and made too many mistakes.”
Chad Logan
“We literally have dozens, if not hundreds, of stranded vehicles,”
Bill Janklow
“We are using three-strand electric fence, and it's worked. So far we haven't had problems.”
Curt Freese