14in Quotes & Sayings

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. — Richard Dawkins

You sometimes have to let people off the bus during your journey in life...not because you don't love them but because they are a distraction towards your growth! — Kemi Sogunle

I know it's thankless to be sensible in the face of someone's primitive distrust. — Don DeLillo

IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity. — Emily Dickinson

You did study art there?" Gennie persisted.
Grant watched the smoke rise and the haze of heat that rippled the air. "Why?"
"Because it's obvious from that wicked little caricature you drew of me that you have talent, and that you've had training. What are you doing with it?"
"With what?"
Gennie drew her brows together in frustration. "The talent and the training. I'd have heard of you if you were painting."
"I'm not," he said simply.
"Then what are you doing?"
"What I want. Weren't you going to make a salad?"
"Damn it, Grant-"
"All right, don't get testy.I'll make it. — Nora Roberts

Every accomplishment begins with the decision to try. — Esther Thomas

And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly. — George W. Bush

We were mighty short of infielders in those days — Lou Gehrig

13I can do all things through him who strengthens me. 14In any case, it was kind of you to share my distress. 15 — Harold W. Attridge

She gazed at the bay of wrecked shuttles in dismay. The last of her adrenaline seeped away at the sight of the widespread destruction.

It occurred to her then, for perhaps the first time in this long nightmare, that she was going to die. — G.S. Jennsen

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart. — Steven Cojocaru

What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world. — Iris Murdoch

You were fine," she said, a smile quirking up at the corner of her mouth. "I was fantastic. — Jennifer Iacopelli

Just because you have power, doesn't mean you should use it, especially for the wrong reasons. — Celia Mcmahon

Some people lusted after cars, which had never made sense to me. For me, bookshelves could inspire whole spontaneous sonnets, so maybe it was an each to her own scenario. — Megan Crane

VIOLA
Cuz she's here -
She came -
She came for me -
And she calls my name -
And I feel her strength coursing thru my Noise like a fire -
And the Mayor staggers back like he's been punched in the face by a row of houses -
"Ah, yes," he grunts, his hand to his head. "Your tower of strength has arrived."
"Todd!" I hear her call again -
And I take it and I use it -
Cuz I can feel her there, riding to the end of the world to find me, to save me if I needed saving -
Which I did - — Patrick Ness