Akpabio Today Quotes & Sayings

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. — Virginia Woolf

Many of my patients continued to smoke, often furtively, during their treatment for cancer (I could smell the acrid whiff of tobacco on their clothes as they signed the consent forms for chemotherapy). — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Darwin uneasily accepted that evolution might occasionally proceed a little faster than he had at first envisaged, but in general he simply dismissed Thompson's claim; although he could not disprove it, he remained stubbornly convinced that he was right. Darwin felt that evolution change, like Lyell's geological forces, must proceed at a respectable pace; apart from anything else, more rapid change hinted at supernatural, perhaps even divine, intervention in the Earth's history - approaches that increasingly had no place in properly philosophical explanations. — Jim Endersby

Many people close themselves off from the world when they are under pressure. That is understandable. I have gone through periods when I didn't want to meet people because I didn't feel good about my situation in life and that made my life even more stressful. Remind yourself often about how much of an impact compassion and friendship can have on your life. You need to get out there, be compassionate and share your time and your life with your friends and other people that need your support. It's worth it on every level. — Gudjon Bergmann

It had been a morning of vivid images: the man-made streams, the rats in the butchers' shops, the stacks of new-minted silver pennies, and then the woman's private parts. For a while, he knew, those pictures would come back to him to unsettle his meditations. — Ken Follett

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs. — Rabindranath Tagore

I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself. — Eleanor Clark

On other shows when they get to the end of the scene, they yell 'Cut!' On Whose Line, we yell 'That's Enough!' — Drew Carey

What if God's 'NO,' is really a gift? His way to protect us from what we cannot see, provide something better than we can imagine, or be part of the process of growing us closer to Him. — Lysa TerKeurst

'Hawkeye' is much more intimate than any of the superhero works I've done before. — Jeff Lemire

You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own. — Antonio Porchia

I rolled up my sleeve. Penned on my arm in my own writing: If I prove I'm not selfish, Daniel will love me. — Jordan Castillo Price

Great," Percy said. "I always wanted to be glue. — Rick Riordan

A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline. — Russell D. Moore