293150104 Quotes & Sayings

IDers argue that such traits, involving many parts that must cooperate for that trait to function at all, defy Darwinian explanation. Therefore, by default, they must have been designed by a supernatural agent. This is commonly called the "God of the gaps" argument, and it is an argument from ignorance. What it really says is that if we don't understand everything about how natural selection built a train, that lack of understanding itself is evidence for super-natural creation. — Jerry A. Coyne

I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win]. — Deena Kastor

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. — Malcolm X

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Obama really does recognize the threats that are out there; I think he understands the world. He understands the role of America in that troubled world. — Leon Panetta

I sort of fell."
"Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet? — Rick Riordan

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. — Josh Billings

Life's final lesson,the only truthful one buried beneath a layered skein of delusions.
Sooner or later,she now understood,we are all naught but food.Wolves or worms,the end abrupt or lingering,it matter not in the least. — Steven Erikson

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams

The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday. — Richard P. Feynman

I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there's any grudges I should start. — Roz Chast

Where much is given, much is required. Our Heavenly Father asks His daughters to walk in virtue, to live in righteousness so that we can fulfill our life's mission and His purposes. He wants us to be successful, and He will help us as we seek His help. — Margaret D. Nadauld

She'd been waging a battle against tears, but now, in a sudden break, she lost it. — Ransom Riggs

I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country. — Rachel Griffiths