“Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides
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“I'm an outsider by choice, she said, but I'm hoping that won't be my choice forever.”
Source: Trusting Soul
“Research is a matter of overcoming obstacles.”
Interviewed by Harry Kreisler, February 28, 2003. In Conversations with History http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Dalgarno/dalgarno-con0.html. Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley.
Context: Research is a matter of overcoming obstacles. That's what research is about. There are problems. There are difficulties. It's hard to make sense of a collection of information or whatever. Obstacles are the nature of research. Maybe that's why some people give up. There's always an obstacle. You overcome one to find there's another one.
“The nature is pleased to nature
The nature overcomes the nature
The Nature dominated nature.”
Synesios in a comment about Demokritos, in K. C. Schmieder, The History of Alchemy (2005) p. 64; a translation of Geschichte der Alchemie (1832).
“Ah," she said to herself, "want of an object to live for—that's all is the matter with me!”
Bk. II, ch. 4
The Return of the Native (1878)
Patrick Standish and Jenny Bunn in Ch. 27
Take a Girl Like You (1960)
“Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.”
Source: Xenocide