Adquiridos Quotes & Sayings

She had a childlike innocence that both charmed Taylor and aroused his protective interests, but eventually, she too wanted more than Taylor was willing to commit to. — Nicholas Sparks

Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be. — Bill Bryson

The value for which P=0.05, or 1 in 20, is 1.96 or nearly 2; it is convenient to take this point as a limit in judging whether a deviation ought to be considered significant or not. Deviations exceeding twice the standard deviation are thus formally regarded as significant. Using this criterion we should be led to follow up a false indication only once in 22 trials, even if the statistics were the only guide available. Small effects will still escape notice if the data are insufficiently numerous to bring them out, but no lowering of the standard of significance would meet this difficulty. — Ronald A. Fisher

American audiences are affected by what the English people think. — Chita Rivera

[Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer ... No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father. — Billy Graham

And I thought I might take him home and see how he works. It's really neat the way all those little bone things fit together, like a zipper. — Anne Rivers Siddons

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think. — Lorraine Toussaint

A brief silence followed, everyone smiling with no direction, one of those awkward moments where families realize they are essentially a collection of strangers with a few things in common ... — David Gilbert

The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark. — Parke Godwin

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions. — Thucydides

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy. — Rich Lowry

Social rejection - or fearing it - is one of the most common causes of anxiety. Feelings of inclusion depend not so much on having frequent social contacts or numerous relationships as on how accepted we feel, even in just a few key relationships.20 Small wonder that we have a hardwired system that is alert to the threat of abandonment, separation, or rejection: these were once actual threats to life itself, though they are only symbolically so today. Still, when we hope to be a You, being treated like an It, as though we do not matter, carries a particularly harsh sting. — Daniel Goleman

Just you wait. Papa Koschei is coming, coming, coming, over the hills on his red horse and he's got bells on his boots and a ring in his poket and he knows your name, Marya Morevna. — Catherynne M Valente