Extremes,' said the Controller, 'meet. For the good reason that they were made to meet.
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MEET THE ROBINSONS 'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
THOMAS HOOD Extremes meet.
LOUIS SEBASTIAN MERCIER Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936...
ELIZABETH BOWEN What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end...
DENNIS GABOR Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to ...
JOSHUA SLOCUM I did meet with him. I said he had made a mistake and that people were talking about recalling him.
BOB DAY They have both done really well. (In this meet), they hit all their routines, minus beam. For whatev...
BRANDY SWAGER Some people meet you for a reason, while others meet you to stay there in your life.
AKANSH MALIK My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH A letter from the organ center and they said that the family wanted to meet.
LARRY LATHAM Those two runs we made were huge when you look at the final score. We knew how big they were inside ...
CRAIG HAASE And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But God doesn’t change.’
'Men do, though.’
'What difference does that make?’
...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I think Manny knows that we have made a good faith effort to meet his ... request.
JED HOYER But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated.
"Why one makes such a fuss ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY This will be good for them to get some big meet experience. This meet didn't tell me much. I know th...
DAN WINZENRIED It's a very low-pressure thing. It's a chance for people to have a good time and maybe meet someone ...
ELVIS DURAN It's a nice place to come for a first meet. It was a good meet.
CHARLES SCHAFER And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I
will make him an help meet for hi...
BIBLE The visit went pretty good. I got to meet players and coaches and see how they were going to use me.
DUKE CALHOUN Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.'
AUDREY MEADOWS For their sadness was a symptom of their love for one another—
ALDOUS HUXLEY They were cheering for each other and holding blocks and carrying sweats. The team aspect was really...
AARON NIDA They were slower today with the heat and the fact that this is our fourth meet in 10 days. We kinda ...
DALE PHILLIPS It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, ...
KEVIN KWAN I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and biza...
MEI FONG We felt going into the meet that we had a good chance at winning. We didn't slow down in training at...
BRIAN GRACA There's no reason to be otherwise...I think that the kids that come around, it's so nice to meet the...
JOHNNY DEPP I want to give kudos for Nintendo for its attempt at innovation with the new controller, ... bring p...
PETER MOORE There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the press...
STEPHEN COVEY Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, n...
C.S. LEWIS Nice to meet ya, shank," the boy said. "Welcome to the Glade.
JAMES DASHNER My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
WILL ROGERS The relay team was ranked sixth going in, so they performed where they were supposed to. We were hop...
DANA SCHWARTING I cannot," said he, "expect everyone to have my virtues. It's good enough to meet with my vices...
ANDRé GIDE The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I final...
ANDREW ADAMSON The waiter approached.
'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet th...
DOUGLAS ADAMS If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI Floor was awesome. We were really clean. Overall, I thought it was a really good meet for us.
JACQUE BARTOW It was pretty much the same as last week's meet with me and Wayne and Kelso. It was good for us to g...
CAMERON GRANT It was an overall good meet for us.
BUZZ STEVENSON Parallel lines meet at infinity. Looking back from said point, do parallel lines ever not meet?
RJ CLAWSON This is my first varsity meet but it felt pretty good to win that. This is a pretty big meet.
COLE CONWAY Sometimes
you meet people and know immediately
that they were meant to be your friend.
ALISON G. BAILEY Graham ran well. He got ninth against some stiff competition. There were 18 teams for the boys and a...
ANDY HOLT It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.
NORMAN WISDOM I will have a good idea of where we are after the first meet. We can start building on that first me...
BOB ROSNICK Good people need to meet good people.
PETER STROPLE The reason she stopped by the congressman's office was because I interned there and she would come t...
JENNIFER BAKER (INTERN) We went into this meet missing five girls due to illness or injury. We didn't know really how we wou...
DAVE RANDGAARD They were picked to win the division for good reason. They know how to win.
HENRY DICKERSON Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.
ROBERT BRAULT Quite a few people were asking questions about her after the meet. They thought she was older than t...
BRIAN WEAVER When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the
men were greatly ashamed: and the ...
BIBLE We really are in good shape for sectionals. It appears that we will advance everyone to the district...
KYLE GOODRICH Stay at peace with everyone you meet and hold no grudge with anyone for any reason.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Boyertown has a really good team, a lot of swimmers that are very good, we've been talking this meet...
MITCH SCHERER We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sa...
NEIL POSTMAN This is amazing. We had a meet at Winter Haven where the skies were black and it never rained, anoth...
JEN GOSLINE When the AFA said that Ford was going to meet their demands, Ford was surprised. They told the AFA o...
LESLIE THOMPSON The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn a...
ELIZABETH BOWEN The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn a...
ELIZABETH BOWEN We had a really good meet. Our runners who ran at this meet last year, they had just as fast of time...
ERIC HUNT We've made a lot of really good progress lately; things are moving along well. We're optimistic we'l...
DEBORAH GALLOWAY This is an executive of the government out of control. Where does this stop? The government is reach...
BILL GINSBURG Clary,” Jocelyn said. “I want you to meet Tessa Gray.
CASSANDRA CLARE Gill ran a good race. That's very good for him to place in this meet.
BRAD BEVIS This meet was kind of like of a workout meet. A meet to help prepare us for next week.
LACLAIRE CARTER If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someo...
CARLY PATTERSON The prom is a good way to meet new members.
ADAHLIA SUICIDE Uno cree las cosas porque ha sido acondicionado para creerlas.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Las palabras, como los rayos X, atraviesan cualquier cosa, si uno las emplea bien.
ALDOUS HUXLEY They also have year-round swimmers, and they give us some good competition. We expect to have anothe...
JULIE WITHINGTON We're pleased. It was a good meet to get us ready for the states next week.
FRANK BARBUTO It's for kids who just want to have fun, who may not be sports-oriented. It's for everybody, no matt...
KAREN GRANT Hopefully, Japan will meet the commitment it made earlier in the year.
HAROLD CREEL Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.
NINA DE GRAMONT [Thomas] had a good meet. He trained well over the break and set some personal records at the New Ha...
MICK WESTKOTT I wanted to come back for the last home meet (second weekend in February) and I qualified for the st...
CARRIE BURGGRAF When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
FRANK HERBERT They say there is always a reason why God makes you meet another person. But the problem is girls do...
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI Let's take the good times as they go, and I'll meet you further on up the road...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for y...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS I wasn't asked to go, and I'm not one to just show up, ... I've since been told that it's dangerous ...
MICHAEL STERN No good sittin’ worryin’ abou’ it,” he said. “What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll m...
J.K. ROWLING No good sittin' worryin' abou' it," he said. "What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it doe...
J.K. ROWLING I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the ru...
JEANNETTE WALLS It was a good meet for a lot of young kids.
BRIAN MARTZ They meet the IUCN [World Conservation Union] criteria for being critically endangered.
JENNIFER DEVINE They let me meet him. They let me get my picture made with him. I will never forget it.
KAREN SHEMONSKY This was another step for us. We made more progress getting ready for the Big Sky meet. Erin had a v...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Death
Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
ALDOUS HUXLEY