Acarpous Quotes & Sayings

Simon stood up and said the first thing that popped into his mind. "I just wanted to tell you that we all really enjoyed that beef stew they saved for dinner. You should serve that again."
Dean Penhallow gave him an odd look. " those weren't beets, Simon."
This didn't surprise him. — Cassandra Clare

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat. — Rollo May

The two men's eyes widened when they saw me charging toward them. One of them dropped his hold on Grey, letting him sway dangerously over the edge. Both men reached for their guns, but it was too late. I was nearly on them. Fortiter.
I slammed into Grey, my momentum carrying us over the low edge. I briefly heard Karl shout, before the wind filled my ears. We were falling fast, and the pavement rushed up at us at an alarming speed. — Kirby Howell

A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same way there are substances in the serum to react with many different animal cells. In addition, the substances which match each kind of cell are different in each kind of serum. The number of hypothetical different substances postulated makes this conception so uneconomical that the question must be asked whether it is the only one possible ... We ourselves hold that another, simpler, explanation is possible. — Karl Landsteiner

Any work of art," said her grandfather,"must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world. — Jane Urquhart

All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better. — Jeremy Bulloch

Industry is the root of all ugliness. — Oscar Wilde

I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that's hacker oriented. I don't like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don't like stealing music one bit, at all ... — Steve Wozniak

Our teaching systems mostly teach us how to conform but not how to reform. — Debasish Mridha

Mourning suits us Spanish women.
Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe
we are bred for the part. — Judith Ortiz Cofer

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute. — Rand Paul

You can't hold on to a grievance and be happy. Time to make a choice! — Robert Holden

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably. — Ethan Zuckerman

Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation to political and economic life it's rounding on religion, ignoring the fact that, in some key respects, many believers are likely to share leftist aspirations. — George Pattison