A theory may be viewed rather broadly as a statement purporting to describe, or to explain, or to help one to understand a phenomenon. More narrowly, a theory may present a claim of truth, or assert the presence of relationships between phenomena, or predict the occurrence of phenomena.
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Related To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA I suggest that we need a generation or two not of theory but of an attempt to discover the real phen... ALLAN BLOOM Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON The terrifying fear of a crash had triggered the fight-or-flight response in the child, making him b... PAWAN MISHRA There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but ... IVAN TURGENEV The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of... BRET EASTON ELLIS A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintai... DAVID BREWSTER To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... AL GOLDSTEIN Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ... LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an... ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite... NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phen... ISAAC NEWTON Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. We cherish martyrs not because they died for truth, but because they died for what they believed in ... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD It's nice to have things to look forward to. STEPHEN CHBOSKY One of the most important things I have found is that no one
school of thought has all of the answer... LEWIS N. ROE Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. WILHELM REICH
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He placed a soft, warm ha... APRILYNNE PIKE And do you really think someone's going to look at you and say, 'Hmm, I think that girl's a plant'? APRILYNNE PIKE So there's magic? Real magic? It's not just all scientific like David says?" Tamani rolled his ... APRILYNNE PIKE In prehistoric times, early man was bowled over by natural events: rain, thunder, lightning, the vio... SIGNE PIKE Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are ... ROB PIKE He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles again... ALBERT PIKE It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you... ROSAMUND PIKE I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ... ROSAMUND PIKE You could be David's friend too". She glanced at Tamani when he said nothing. He was frowning. "The ... 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But he would give you the knowledge with which you c... CHRISTOPHER PIKE Laurel, David? Would you like to share the joke with the rest of the class?" he asked, one hand on h... APRILYNNE PIKE That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill u... ALBERT PIKE Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think o... CHRISTOPHER PIKE I am a vampire, and that is the truth. CHRISTOPHER PIKE Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a m... CHRISTOPHER PIKE All I'm saying is that you shouldn't stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble one... APRILYNNE PIKE Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a ... CHRISTOPHER PIKE If you look at the guys wearing this armor, they look like turtles. JOHN PIKE Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them. CHRISTOPHER PIKE It's a great romantic story with very real people in it and I think it is open to so many interpreta... ROSAMUND PIKE I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted... CHRISTOPHER PIKE We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. ALBERT PIKE I sit alone in a dead world. The wind blows hot and dry, and the dust gathers like particles of memo... CHRISTOPHER PIKE His face was tense, his jaw flexed as he stared at her. She could hardly stand to meet his eyes. The... APRILYNNE PIKE What I find sexy is when someone's having fun and able to look right back at you. ROSAMUND PIKE And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Preju... ROSAMUND PIKE I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bun... ROSAMUND PIKE Does love survive? 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CHRISTOPHER PIKE One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about. CHRISTOPHER PIKE Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means. CHRISTOPHER PIKE How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of star... CHRISTOPHER PIKE The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and... CHRISTOPHER PIKE In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator. CHRISTOPHER PIKE It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full o... CHRISTOPHER PIKE Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries. CHRISTOPHER PIKE Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go ... CHRISTOPHER PIKE True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth. CHRISTOPHER PIKE I don't want to die!" 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ALBERT PIKE Our support professionals will be coming through the ranks of support delivery and some of them will... GREG PIKE These are not handouts. It is not like they give you anything at Old Pueblo: They provide shelter an... GREG PIKE I was a terrible person: a liar, a cheat, a thief and a drug addict. GREG PIKE You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow. CHRISTOPHER PIKE Is he really in love with you?" Chelsea asked after a long, silent moment. "Yes," Laurel... APRILYNNE PIKE ...I'm the last person to tell you that you need a guy to make you happy. But if you're not moving o... APRILYNNE PIKE I would leave everything and join the World Tree tomorrow if she died, " Tamani said. "I know, ... APRILYNNE PIKE I just want to kiss you." He slid his hand up her neck, cupping the side of her face. "Do you want t... APRILYNNE PIKE You were dancing with Yuki and I looked at you. And you turned away and held her closer. Why did you... APRILYNNE PIKE ...Sometimes," he said, bringing a figertip to her bottom lip, "A kiss is simply a kiss. APRILYNNE PIKE One way or another, I'll watch her from a distance, silently and wihtout her knowledge, if that's wh... APRILYNNE PIKE He'd been back for about two weeks, and everything in Laurel's life had been thrown into Chaos. Sexy... APRILYNNE PIKE When in doubt, head under the bed," Tamani said with a grin. APRILYNNE PIKE So why are you here?" He lifted his hands and made as if to lay them on her arms, but just befo... APRILYNNE PIKE Thank you for the exquisite comfort of your kitchen floor. APRILYNNE PIKE Someday , Tamani told himself. Someday it'll be me. APRILYNNE PIKE Aww, come on. I don't bite...hard. APRILYNNE PIKE I closed my eyes," he repeated after a few shallow breahts, "and imagined she was you. APRILYNNE PIKE Oh my gosh, is that an iPhone?!" Laurel asked, her voice unconsciously rising in pitch and volume. APRILYNNE PIKE Tamani has generously agreed to donate his body to my research." The words were out of L... APRILYNNE PIKE But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love som... APRILYNNE PIKE I'm not asking for forever," Tamani said. "Yet. I'm just asking for a moment. APRILYNNE PIKE Men," Chelsea muttered derisively... APRILYNNE PIKE Laurel nodded slowly, then paused. "I love him, Mom." "I know you do. But there are a lot of di... APRILYNNE PIKE I wouldn't go that far mate," he said. "I still don't like you. APRILYNNE PIKE All of the heartache, the anger, the fear that this was as good as it was ever going to get, was wor... APRILYNNE PIKE You live your life and continue with all of your normal activities. I'll keep you safe," he said ste... APRILYNNE PIKE Long ago, when faeries and men still wandered the earth as brothers, the MacLeod chief fell in love ... SIGNE PIKE No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a c... CHRISTOPHER PIKE